Translation for "thick-set" to spanish

Thick-set

adjective

• rechoncho

Translation examples

rechoncho adjective

She was strongly built, thick-set almost, for a girl.
Era una muchacha robusta, casi rechoncha.

In this passageway stood a thick-set, broad-shouldered patient in pink-striped pyjamas.
En este pasillo se hallaba parado un enfermo rechoncho, ancho de espaldas, vestido con un pijama a rayas rosadas.

He was followed by a fair-haired, thick-set young man of about twenty, who was not wearing the official uniform.
le seguía un muchacho de unos veinte años, rechoncho, rubio, que no llevaba la librea de los vigilantes.

They visited the collector named John Hinchman first. Hinchman was a thick-set old man with white hair and gimlet eyes;
Visitaron primero a John Hinchman, anciano rechoncho, con cabellos blancos y ojuelos vivos.

He was thick-set, wore tennis shoes and a light-blue cotton jacket, had an easy walk and a chilling calm.
Era rechoncho, con zapatos de tenis y una chaquetilla azul claro de algodón ordinario, y se movía con una andadura fácil y una tranquilidad escalofriante.

He was about the height of a small woman, upright, thick–set, and of a stature low and threatening. And nothing had been lost of the advantages given him by nature;
Era ágil y alerta, alto como una mujer pequeña, rechoncho, compacto, de estatura baja y amenazadora, y nada había perdido de la pasta de que estaba hecho;

His men filed off, and he followed them quickly, closely attended by a thick-set, savage-looking Sumatrese he had introduced before as the commander of his brig.
Sus hombres desfilaron y él los siguió rápidamente, acompañado por un rechoncho sumatrés de aspecto salvaje a quien había presentado como el capitán de su bergantín.

Spranklin opened the door of a small lighted room which contained a desk, a filing case, a hard chair or two, and a thick-set man with a hard chin and stupid eyes.
Spranklin abrió la puerta de una habitación pequeña, iluminada, en la que había un escritorio, un fichero, una o dos sillas y un hombre rechoncho, de mandíbula prominente, ojos estúpidos y cara arrebolada.

The tall colonel, livid, with his coal-black ringlets and moustache, crouched, as it were, to look into the eyes of the short, thick-set, red-faced prisoner with rumpled white hair. "That we shall see.
El coronel, de aventajada estatura, cuyos rizos y bigotes de azabache reforzaban la lividez de su rostro, se inclinó para mirar en los ojos al hombrecillo rechoncho y rubicundo de revuelto cabello blanco. – Eso lo veremos.