This article will address the question of what kind of stockies they are. Is this adjective used only in relation to those nouns that denote objects with roots? Or is it the other way around?
Large root size - a sign of stockiness?
If we consider this adjective from the point of view of its composition, then we can distinguish the suffix -ast in it. It forms adjectives, for example:
- “Big-eyed” - having large, eye-catching eyes;
- “Eddy” - with a huge number of eddies;
- “Toothy” - with a large number of large teeth.
By analogy, stocky ones are those whose root differs in its size. What has roots? Plants, teeth, hair, words. There is still a mathematical root. And so they call the root cause of some event, the ancestors of the clan.
However, to all these nouns, with the exception of the word "plants", the definition of "stocky" does not fit.
It will sound ridiculous enough: stocky hair, stocky family, stocky algebraic expression. And the root value in these cases does not play any role.
Meaning of the word “stocky”
This adjective, oddly enough, is suitable for nouns that mean objects or living things that have no roots at all.
Those are people, animals, buildings, furniture.
Basil was stocky: broad-shouldered and strong, he was not distinguished by high growth.
The Bear went to the hunter, protecting her cubs, stocky and powerful, with eyes burning with hatred.
From the example it is clear that those to whom the definition of "stocky" refers are small and dense creatures with a strong physique.
After urban high-rise buildings, this stocky building seemed to come to Earth from bygone centuries.
This example is already about the building. Here, too, the adjective indicates fundamental and squat.
A stocky tree stood on the very road with a trunk in three girths; it seemed a hero, buried on the shoulders of the earth.
Here you can also trace the meaning of small growth and strong build. But, surprisingly now, the explanatory dictionaries indicate that stocky plants are those with large and strong roots, and not the outer, visible part.
But it is unlikely that anyone today will allow himself to express himself in this way: “My stocky carrot has become stocky! Greens something so-so, two feathers. But the root is yes! ”