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Meanings of chesty in English

Having extreme self-confidence and overbearing pride.

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        Marked by a large or well-developed chest.

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              Examples for "big-chested"
              Examples for "big-chested"
              1
              I'd rather have a big-chested stiff who can hardly pronounce her name.
              Big bosoms and square jaws
              2
              Soon they were all talking at once, rumbling and roaring as big-chested open-air men will, when whisky has whipped their taciturnity.
              John Barleycorn
              3
              As he stretched himself out before her, lithe-limbed and big-chested, the atmosphere of that firelit place seemed filled with a sense of safety.
              The Wrong Woman
              4
              "Don't let that worry yuh," the big-chested gambler snarled.
              Kid Wolf of Texas / A Western Story
              Usage of chesty in English
              1
              He was chesty, wore long sleeves and ran on his toes.
              The Guardian
              2
              See how chesty it makes him-hewon't even look this way.
              Wells Brothers: The Young Cattle Kings
              3
              I don't feel very chesty about the way I've managed it.
              T. Tembarom
              4
              My throat was parched and I was coughing; a really bad, chesty cough.
              Underground
              5
              They felt a bit chesty at the thought of that B. S. or A.
              The Plastic Age
              6
              I took that chesty stiff by the throat, and squeezed until his eyes popped.
              The Blood Ship
              7
              Rhonda worked the register and counter, a shy, chesty, bleached-out woman in her thirties.
              Phoenix noir
              8
              A stubborn chesty or dry cough can be so annoying.
              Independent.ie
              9
              It'll do 'em a heap of good to try a real chesty laugh occasionally.
              Number Seventeen
              10
              Could I decline to drink with these two chesty shipmates?
              John Barleycorn
              11
              As Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush get more testy, Donald Trump gets more chesty.
              The Irish Times
              12
              He'd like to show off his house at the beach and his chesty new wife.
              Public secrets
              13
              All that chesty fulminating apparently functions as political Cialis.
              Pinheads and patriots: where you stand in the age of obama
              14
              I was afraid it made me look too chesty.
              The burglar who traded ted williams
              15
              There was a chesty person with a wave of hair coming down over his forehead.
              The Coming of Bill
              16
              Paulsberg himself says that Grande is getting chesty lately.
              Shallow Soil
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              Chesty through the time