chesty
/'tʃesti/
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Having a large or prominent chest: Describes a person, typically a man, with a broad, muscular, or well-developed chest.
- Arrogant or conceited: Characterized by an inflated sense of self-importance or pride; behaving in a boastful or swaggering manner.
- Relating to chest ailments: Suffering from or prone to conditions affecting the chest, such as a cough or congestion, often used informally.
Examples
Physical Build: The swimmer was tall and chesty, with powerful shoulders.He has a very chesty physique from years of weightlifting.
Arrogant Behavior: After his promotion, he became quite chesty and started giving orders to everyone.She dismissed his chesty attitude as mere insecurity.
Medical Condition: The child has a chesty cough that keeps him up at night.I'm feeling a bit chesty today; I think I'm coming down with a cold.
Advanced Usage
- "Chesty as a peacock": An idiom meaning extremely proud or arrogant, often with a swaggering posture.
Variants and Related Words
- Chestiness (noun): The quality or state of being chesty, either in physique or attitude.
Synonyms
- For "arrogant": Conceited, boastful, swaggering, pompous.
- For "large-chested": Broad-chested, barrel-chested, muscular.
- For "having a chest ailment": Congested, phlegmy, bronchial.
Related Phrases
- Chesty cough: A deep, phlegmy cough that seems to originate in the chest.
Adjective
- having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride
- an arrogant official
- arrogant claims
- chesty as a peacock
- marked by a large or well-developed chest
- he was big-chested, big-shouldered and heavy-armed