Dictionary entry

Thickset

Pronunciation: /θɪkˈsɛt/

Pronunciation

/θɪkˈsɛt/

Myanmar Meaning

(of a person or animal)တုတ်ခိုင်သော။

Definition

thickset /θÇk'set/ adj တုတ္ခိုင္ေသာ။

Examples

  1. ‘I just retain the impression of a short
  2. thickset
  3. dark-haired individual dressed in hairy tweed and sitting in silence in an armchair.’
  4. ‘He sat up
  5. revealing broad
  6. stocky shoulders and thickset arms to go along with them.’
  7. ‘The findings
  8. based on ancient human bones from a cave in Romania
  9. add to the long-running debate as to why Neandertals
  10. a heavy-browed
  11. thickset species of human
  12. eventually became extinct.’
  13. ‘He was positioned behind three other men and a thickset woman.’
  14. ‘In one corner
  15. I noticed that a group of thickset males were eyeing their orders.’
  16. ‘Described as a thickset man of average height
  17. Joe always wore a cap.’
  18. ‘The peasant in charge of laundry duty
  19. a thickset
  20. intimidating woman of considerable age
  21. looked Kelly up and down with a beady
  22. critical eye.’
  23. ‘Everywhere you look
  24. there are thickset bully boys in tight-fitting suits
  25. ready to dish out punishment.’
  26. ‘Karl stood up almost immediately to shake the hand of a thickset man.’
  27. ‘The widow's small thickset neighbours
  28. gathered in the plain
  29. seemly room
  30. are doggedly attentive as the priest
  31. comically
  32. explains the afterlife to a ghost.’
  33. ‘The guest was a thickset
  34. strong-looking middle-aged man with grey hair and moustache.’
  35. ‘Yes
  36. I was accosted
  37. again
  38. in my driveway with two very thickset people
  39. attempted to get into the car at night.’
  40. ‘A thickset woman with very short
  41. dark hair
  42. she was silent and barely flinched as people passing her hissed insults into her ear.’
  43. ‘The thickset man
  44. who was in his 50s
  45. drove off with a trailer in tow
  46. but was followed by Mr Long.’
  47. ‘He's a thickset
  48. ex-pat Brit who's spent nine no-risk years sunning himself by his swimming pool
  49. tempting skin cancer.’
  50. ‘Without the racist prop the reader would have been just like anyone else on the train
  51. yet with it he suddenly appeared to be an archetypal thickset English thug.’
  52. ‘Before we could walk to the door
  53. a thickset man opened it.’
  54. ‘As he strode across the lobby
  55. I saw an elderly man
  56. thickset and tough
  57. who resembled an oil tycoon.’
  58. ‘The commander was a thickset man with hooded eyelids and a greasy charm.’
  59. ‘One afternoon a short