Stocky. (Notice junk for chunk in quot. 1807.)
1776. DESERTED … Matthew Murray, a well set chunkey fellow.—Maryland Journal, Aug. 21.
1777. Ran away, from on board the Ship Defence, William Parsons,… chunky, well made, &c.—Id., July 29.
1786. He is about 5 feet 6 inches high, 20 years of age, fat and chunky.—Id., July 7.
1787. Ran away,… Negro Jupiter, 24 years of age, thick and chunky made, round-faced, &c.—Id., Dec. 21.
1789. Ran away, a black Country-born Negro, middling chunky.—Id., Aug. 28.
1807. A broad, thick junk of a man, the perfect image of the squab fiend.—The Balance, Nov. 17, p. 362.
1833. Dennie, who has been called the American Addison, once amused himself by criticising an advertisement of a man who had stolen “a chunky horse,” and with such a lesson before our eyes, we should hardly venture upon a chunky young man for a hero, or a hard favoured lady for a heroine.—James Hall, ‘Legends of the West,’ p. 12 (Phila.). (Italics in the original.)
