thickset
pronunciation
How to pronounce thickset in British English:
UK [θɪkˈset]
How to pronounce thickset in American English:
US [ˈθɪkˈsɛt]
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- Adjective:
- heavy and compact in form or stature
- planted or growing close together
Word Origin
- thickset (adj.)
- also thick-set, late 14c., thikke sette "with parts or things set close together" (of grass on a sward, etc.), from thick + set (v.). Meaning "stocky, strong and square-built" is recorded from 1724.
Example
- 1. Allison , who is sixty-three years old , is a thickset man with a stubbly beard and a gravel voice .
- 2. When gerald was forty-three , so thickset of body and florid of face that he looked like a hunting squire out of a sporting print , it came to him that tara , dear though it was , and the county folk , with their open hearts and open houses , were not enough .