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adjective

chesty adj.

Marked by a large or well-developed chest.

Synonyms: big-chested.

Having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride; as, chesty as a peacock.

Synonyms: arrogant, self-important.

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Etymology of 'Chesty'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Chesty" Quotes from Famous Books

... with a toss of her head, "and when they raised you from twelve at Christmas you thought you were doing great. I remember how chesty you were ...

— Bought and Paid For - From the Play of George Broadhurst • Arthur Hornblow

... netting I saw it was not a baby Tiger but a small white Bull-terrier. He snapped at me and at any one or anything that seemed too abrupt or too near for proper respect, and his snarling growl was unpleasantly frequent. Dogs have two growls: one deep-rumbled, and chesty; that is polite warning—the retort courteous; the other mouthy and much higher in pitch: this is the last word before actual onslaught. The Terrier's growls were all of the latter kind. I was a dog-man and thought I ...

— Animal Heroes • Ernest Thompson Seton

... her, of course, and I expect we had the safety vault crowd guessin' as to what kind of a prize the Van Urbans had won, but it didn't feaze her a bit. She just gave 'em the Horse Show stare, as cool as a mint frappe. The ringin' up of the curtain didn't disturb her any, either. When a chesty baritone sauntered down toward the footlights and began callin' the chorus names she glanced over her shoulder, casual like, just to see what the row was all about, and then went on sizin' up the folks in the boxes. She ...

— Shorty McCabe • Sewell Ford

... told me when I came to Twickenham Town that the chief thing I would find out before I went away was that I wouldn't really mind owning a life-preserver, my head would have gone up and I would have been as chesty as a hen who tries to crow; and now I'm nothing but a humble-minded person waiting for a high-handed one to come and take me back home. And I am perfectly willing to go. Another thing I have found out this summer ...

— Kitty Canary • Kate Langley Bosher