Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Stocky \Stock"y\, a. [From {Stock}.]
   1. Short and thick; thick rather than tall or corpulent.
      --Addison.

            Stocky, twisted, hunchback stems.     --Mrs. H. H.
                                                  Jackson.

   2. Headstrong. [Prov. Eng.] --G. Eliot.

Source : WordNet®

stocky
     adj : heavy and compact in form or stature; "a wrestler of compact
           build"; "he was tall and heavyset"; "stocky legs"; "a
           thick middle-aged man"; "a thickset young man" [syn: {compact},
            {heavyset}, {thick}, {thickset}]
     [also: {stockiest}, {stockier}]