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Thick

Definition: Thick

Thick

Adjective

1. Not thin; of relatively great extent from one surface to the opposite usually in the smallest of the three solid dimensions; "a thick board"; "a thick sandwich"; "spread a thick layer of butter"; "thick coating of dust"; "thick warm blankets"; or of a specific thickness; "an inch thick".

2. Closely crowded together; "a compact shopping center"; "a dense population"; "thick crowds".

3. Relatively dense in consistency; "thick cream"; "thick soup"; "thick smoke"; "thick fog".

4. Spoken as if with a thick tongue; "the thick speech of a drunkard"; "his words were slurred".

5. Wide from side to side; "a heavy black mark".

6. Hard to pass through because of dense growth; "dense vegetation"; "thick woods".

7. (of darkness) very intense; "thick night"; "thick darkness"; "a face in deep shadow"; "deep night".

8. Abundant; "a thick head of hair".

9. Heavy and compact in form or stature; "a wrestler of compact build"; "he was tall and heavyset"; "stocky legs"; "a thick middle-aged man"; "a thickset young man".

10. : (used informally) associated on close terms; "a close friend"; "the bartender was chummy with the regular customers"; "the two were thick as thieves for months".

11. : used informally.

12. : abundantly covered of filled; "the top was thick with dust".

Adverb

1. With a thick consistency; "the blood was flowing thick".

2. In quick succession; "misfortunes come fast and thick".

Noun

1. The location of something surrounded by other things; "in the midst of the crowd".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "thick" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Thick

DomainDefinition

Multilingual Slang

Albanian (debil). (references)

Slang

Adjective. Source: Refers to a thickness in the right places. Definition: That a woman is attractive or voluptous. Context: Used almost exclusively by men. This is not something that one woman would say about another. In other social groups this word can mean that someone is fat and thus it would be easy to take this word out of context if one were from the out group. Social Source: New School Hip Hop listeners . Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references)
 Adjective. Source: From the English word "thick.". Definition: Cute, pretty. Context: Used any time to talk about or to an attractive girl. Generally used to describe girls that are not Black. Though, it is becoming more common to use as a general term for pretty. Social Source: Gangsters / Rappers. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references)

Slang in 1811

THICK. Intimate. They are as thick as two inkle-weavers. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Thick

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField
thkEnglishThickLanguage

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Thick

Synonyms: blockheaded (adj), boneheaded (adj), chummy (adj), compact (adj), deep (adj), dense (adj), fatheaded (adj), heavy (adj), heavyset (adj), loggerheaded (adj), slurred (adj), stocky (adj), thick(p) (adj), thickheaded (adj), thickset (adj), thick-skulled (adj), wooden-headed (adj), thickly (adv), midst (n). (additional references)
Antonyms: thin (adj), thinly (adv). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Thick

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Density

Adjective: dense, solid; solidified. Verb: caseous; pukka; coherent, cohesive; compact, close, serried, thickset; substantial, massive, lumpish; impenetrable, impermeable, nonporous, imporous; incompressible; constipated; concrete. (hard); knotted, knotty; gnarled; crystalline, crystallizable; thick, grumous, stuffy.

Frequency

Adjective: frequent, many times, not rare, thickcoming, incessant, perpetual, continual, steady, constant, thick; uniform; repeated; customary; (habit); regular (normal); according to rule; (conformable).

Friendship

Acquainted, familiar, intimate, thick, hand and glove, hail fellow well met, free and easy; welcome.

Multitude

Adjective: many, several, sundry, divers, various, not a few; Briarean; a hundred, a thousand, a myriad, a million, a quadrillion, a nonillion, a thousand and one; some ten or a dozen, some forty or fifty; half a dozen, half a hundred; very many, full many, ever so many; numerous; numerose; profuse, in profusion; manifold, multiplied, multiple, multinominal, teeming, populous, peopled, crowded, thick, studded; galore.

Semiliquidity

Adjective: semifluid, semiliquid; tremellose; half melted, half frozen; milky, muddy. Noun: lacteal, lactean, lacteous, lactescent, lactiferous; emulsive, curdled, thick, succulent, uliginous.

Uncleanness

Adjective: dirty, filthy, grimy; unclean, impure; soiled; Verb: not to be handled with kid gloves; dusty, snuffy, smutty, sooty, smoky; thick, turbid, dreggy; slimy; mussy.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Thick

English words defined with "thick": thick skin, Thick stuff, thick with, Through thick and thin. (references)
Specialty definitions using "thick": Thick clay. (references)
Etymologies containing "thick": thicket. (references)

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Modern Usage: Thick

DomainUsage

Screenplays

They've got a thick candy shell (Tommy Boy; writing credit: Terry Turner, Bonnie Turner, Fred Wolf)

Bad, sport, real bad! The karma in here is so thick, you need an aqualung to breathe (Phantom of the Paradise; writing credit: Brian De Palma)

I mean, it was all thick and gross (The Usual Suspects; writing credit: Christopher McQuarrie)

Great. Walls are probably three feet thick, welded shut from the outside, and covered with brick by now (Big Trouble in Little China; writing credit: Gary Goldman; David Z. Weinstein)

They cluck their thick tongues, and shake their heads and suggest, oh so very delicately (Psycho; writing credit: Joseph Stefano)

Lyrics

Speak to me, why are you building this thick brick wall to defend me when your silence is my greatest fear (Trouble Me; performing artist: 10,000 Maniacs)

You love is thick and it swallowed me whole (Head Over Feet; performing artist: Alanis Morissette)

Yeah, them smokies is thick as bugs on a bumper; (Convoy; performing artist: C.W. MCCALL)

'Till the thick thighs, dick rise when I skip by (What'Chu Like; performing artist: Da Brat)

Thick smoke, see her smiling through (I Can't Dance; performing artist: Genesis)

Clever

History is strewn thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill, but a lie, well told, is immortal. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Faults are thick when love is thin. (references; author: unknown)

Tongue Twisters

Do thick tinkers think? (references; author: unknown)

Six thick thistle sticks. (references; author: unknown)

They both, though, have thirty-three thick thimbles to thaw. (references; author: unknown)

Thick ticks on three trees brought broth to ten thin tin men. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

Thick as Thieves (1974)

Through Thick and Thin (1927)

Thru Thick and Thin (1926)

Thick as Thieves (1991)

Big and Thick (1989)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Thick

DomainTitle

References

  • The 2003-2008 World Outlook for Standard and Thick External Sanitary Protection Products (reference)

  • The World Market for Hot-Rolled Iron or Non-Alloy Steel Flat-Rolled Products Measuring At Least 600 mm Wide and Less Than 4.75 mm Thick Excluding Coils (Yield Points): A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  

Music

  

High Tech

  

Consumer Goods

  • KitchenAid KFPSH6 6-Millimeter Thick Shredding Disk, fits 11-Cup Processor (reference)

  • T-Fal 53970 Thick & Thin Two Slice Toaster (reference)

  • Freud LM71M010 10" 18-Tooth Industrial Thick Stock Rip Blade (reference)

    (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Thick

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Photo Album: Thick

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Pictured is an experimental miniature pig. The experimental animal is being held in place by rubber-tube covered arms in a laboratory setting. Some cans are visible on shelves behind the animal. The miniature pig has an unusually thick placenta that prevents sow's immune system from influencing that of offspring. Raised in a sterile environment, such piglets are vital in providing clues as to how the immune system develops. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

Shown are 2 pieces of fish in a casserole dish, set in a thick yellow sauce and garnished with parsley. See artwork: PV-44. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).

Thick fibrous pericyst, hyaline ectocyst, and brood capsules filled with protoscolices are visible. Parasite. Credit: CDC.

Evaluation of fecal smear technique. Top - good, Middle - too thin, Bottom - too thick. Credit: CDC.

On the border between Chile and the Catamarca province of Argentina lies a vast field of currently dormant volcanoes. Over time, these volcanoes have laid down a crust of magma roughly 2 miles (3.2 km) thick. It is tinged with a patina of various colors that can indicate both the age and mineral content of the original lava flows. Credit: NASA.

The view of the South Pole and the Antarctic Plateau from the station. The ice here is over 9000 feet thick. The nearest land feature is a mountain range over 300 miles away. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Upper Boulder Creek, above the influence of Iron Mountain Mine. Note the thick riparian vegetation above the influence of the mine. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

JOHNSON-SEA-LINK's six inch thick acryllic sphere holds pilot and observer. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

Giant salvinia is a fast-growing fern that can clog ponds and lakes. Forming mats up to 2 feet thick, the plant gobbles up oxygen and blocks sunlight needed by other water dwellers. A tiny weevil, Cyrtobagous salviniae, is under study as a biocontrol for this obnoxious invader. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

A small trail runs through some thick foliage in the Agua Fria National Monument. Credit: Beth Perault.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Thick
 

"Texas Bluebonnets" by B0at B0at
Commentary: "Fairly evenly placed, though not very thick or large, bluebonnets."
"Snow" by Joanna Kopik
Commentary: "Tree branches covered with thick wet snow."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Sounds Captioned with "Thick".

PlayCaptionPlayCaption
Thick synthesized texture with guitar playing in a new age or world music style.Simple piano arpeggios with a thick gassy synthesized texture.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Thick

AuthorQuotation

Henry David Thoreau

We live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think we thus lose some respect for one another.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

Lord Chesterfield

Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.

Robert Browning

Good strong thick stupefying incense-smoke!

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Thick

TitleAuthorQuote

Emma

Austen, Jane

Quite thick shoes

So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish

Douglas Adams

So they would distinguish between thin snow and thick snow, light snow and heavy snow, sludgy s

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Her dress front was never thick enough, and never rose high enough

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

Thick among the tufts of rank stiff growth lay battered canisters and clots and coils of solid excrement

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

His hands were hard, with broad fingers and nails as thick and ridged as little clam shells

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

The cable was about as thick as packthread, and the bars of the length and size of a knitting needle

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

The sun is alone, except in thick weather, when there sometimes appear to be two, but one is a mock sun.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Thick

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Two opposing beams can treat food that is twice as thick. (references)

Freeze pork less than 6 inches thick for 20 days at 5 o F to kill any worms. (references)

Mucus in CF patients is very thick and accumulates in the intestines and lungs. (references)

Economic History

Belarus

Terrain: Landlocked, low-lying with thick forests, flat marshes and fields. (references)

Travel

Russia

Water-resistant footwear with thick soles is advised, because the pavement is often rough and large puddles form after rain. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In the novel the writer's thought is tethered to probability, as a domestic horse to the hitching-post, but in romance it ranges at will over the entire region of the imagination -- free, lawless, immune to bit and rein. Your novelist is a poor creature, as Carlyle might say -- a mere reporter. He may invent his characters and plot, but he must not imagine anything taking place that might not occur, albeit his entire narrative is candidly a lie. Why he imposes this hard condition on himself, and "drags at each remove a lengthening chain" of his own forging he can explain in ten thick volumes without illuminating by so much as a candle's ray the black profound of his own ignorance of the matter. There are great novels, for great writers have "laid waste their powers" to write them, but it remains true that far and away the most fascinating fiction that we have is "The Thousand and One Nights."

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: Thick

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Bill Clinton

1993-2001We've slashed the small business loan form from an inch thick to a single page.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Thick

"Thick" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 97.39% of the time. "Thick" is used about 3,255 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)97.39%3,1702,973
Adverb (general)2.61%8535,870
                    Total100.00%3,255N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: Thick

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "thick".
 
NameGenderLanguageMeaning
LaseaN/ABiblical

Thick

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

 

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Expressions: Thick

Expressions using "thick": a bit thick abounding inpredicate abounding withpredicate bristling withpredicate full ofpredicate overflowing overflowing withpredicate rich inpredicate rife withpredicate thick withpredicate be in the thick of it become thick come thick and fast get thick go through thick and thin for smb. have a thick skin in the thick of in the thick of it in the thick of the crowd it is a bit thick lay it on thick lay on thick of thick cloth put it on thick talk thick that stick is thick that's a bit thick that's a bit too thick the air is thick thick and fast Thick and threefold thick as a rope thick as thieves thick board thick clay thick cloth thick cloud thick Ethernet thick flank thick fog thick ink thick layer thick lead thick lens thick of the action Thick register thick skin thick skull thick smoke thick soup Thick squall Thick stuff thick water thick wavy hair Thick wind thick with thick with snow thick wood thick wool through thick and thin to lay it on thick very thick. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "thick": Thick-and-thin block, thick-bearded, thick-bed, thick-billed, thick-billed murre, thick-bodied, thick-bottomed, thick-brained, thick-carpeted, thick-cut, thick-ear, thick-eared, thick-enamelled, thick-film, thick-footed morel, thick-formed, thick-framed, thick-grained, thick-head, thick-headed, thick-knee, thick-kneed plover, thick-knit, thick-leaved, thick-legged, thick-lensed, thick-linked, thick-lipped, thick-muddle, thick-napped, thick-necked, thick-oiled, thick-pile, thick-ribbed, thick-rimmed, thick-set, thick-shelled, thick-skinned, thick-skulled, thick-skulledness, thick-sliced, thick-soled, thick-sprung, thick-stalked, thick-stemmed, thick-stuffed, thick-throbbing, thick-trunked, thick-waisted, thick-walled, Thick-winded, thick-witted, thick-wittedness, thick-wristed.

Ending with "thick": extra-thick, inch-thick.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Thick

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

thick

375

thick penis

50

thick black girl

303

thick pussy

48

thick girl

297

leg thick

48

thick ass

223

thick hair

43

thick cock

192

hair style thick

42

thick black woman

190

black hoe thick

42

thick booty

186

thick black pussy

42

thick woman

165

black chick thick

37

black thick

139

thick black bitch

36

thick chick

124

thick sistas

34

thick black ass

122

bitch thick

33

thick dick

112

cut hair hair thick

32

thick black booty

101

thick dildo

28

hair hair style thick

78

thick film resistor

28

thick butt

74

blood thick

27

thick thigh

68

latina thick

27

thick white girl

66

thick it

24

thick ebony

52

in the thick

23

hoe thick

51

thick black butt

23

latinas thick

50

thick nipples

21
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Thick

Language Translations for "thick"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

tul (beef, crumb, pulp), mes (bosom, bull's eye, dia-, heart, mean, medium, middle, midriff, midst, waist, waistline), i turbullt (blank, cloudy, dim, dimmish, dreamy, dull, dusky, feculent, foggy, indistinct, lax, misty, muddy, obscure, shadowy, turbid, turbulent, vague, woozy), i trashë (bearish, clumsy, coarse, coarse grained, crass, deep, dense, dullish, dumb, dummy, fat, fatuous, fool, full-bodied, full-fed, gross, gruff, lardy, oafish, obese, obtuse, puddingy, purblind, ropy, rough and ready, round, roundabout, slapstick, slow witted, slowcoach, stupid, tactless, uncouth, viscous, wooden, wooden-headed), i shpeshtë (frequent, habitual, hourly, recurrent), i plotë me, i pakuptueshëm (abstruse, elusive, fathomless, illegible, impalpable, impenetrable, inapprehensible, incomprehensible, intangible, obscure, unattainable, unclear, unintelligible, unknowable, unmeaning, unsearchable), i mbushur (brimful, charged, crowded, filled, fraught, full, loaded, packed, padded, plump, portly, replete), i dhjamtë, i dendur (dense, frequent, hourly, impermeable, murky, numerous), i afërt (adjacent, close, cognate, connate, connected, contiguous, homogeneous, imminent, impendent, impending, intimate, near, neighboring, neighbouring, next door, nigh, proximate). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏في قطع سميكة, ‏كثيف (bushy, concentrated, dense, heavy, intense, intensive, thickish, thickset, tufty, turbid), ‏كث (brushy, bushy, dense), ‏غليظ (boor, churlish, coarse, hoarse, loutish, mannerless, robust, rugged, rustic, stodgy, strongarm, ungainly, unmannerly, wild), ‏غبي (asinine, dense, dick, dim witted, drip, dull, dullard, empty headed, fathead, jerk, lacking, lunatic, moronic, opaque, patsy, plonker, sap, slow witted, soppy, stupid, thick-headed, thickish, thick-witted, tomfool, twerp, uncivil, unintelligent, wooden), ‏سميك (solid, stout), ‏الغليظ (churl), ‏الجزء الأكثف. (various references)

   

Basque

  

lodi. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

непоносим (deadly, importunate, impossible, insufferable, insupportable, murderous, pestiferous, provoking, unbearable, unendurable, unsupportable), дебело, изобилен (abounding, abundant, affluent, bountiful, copious, exuberant, fat, flush, free, good, hefty, liberal, luxuriant, opulent, plenteous, plentiful, plenty, prodigal, productive, profuse, prolific, rank, redundant, rich, substantial, unstinted, wealthy), интимен (downstage, familiar, fireside, informal, inner, inofficial, intimate, keyhole, near, pally, personal, private, privy, tete a tete), плътен (closely-knit, compact, compacted, consistent, dense, fruity, open, orotund, resonant, rich, rotund, round, solid, sonorous, stiff), прекален (excessive, extreme, inordinate, overdone, profuse, superfluous, unconscionable, undue, unholy, unmerciful), пресипнал (hoarse, husky), близък (adjacent, akin, allied to, chummy, close, familiar, impendent, kindred, near, neighboring, neighbouring, next, nigh, pally, pressing, prospective, sister, solid, sympathetic, toward), буен (bacchanalian, blustery, catchy, ebullient, exuberant, furious, gross, high-spirited, hot, hot-blooded, hot-brained, hotheaded, impetuous, incandescent, jazz, jazzy, knockabout, lively, lush, luxuriant, obstreperous, opulent, phrenetic, prancing, profuse, proud, puffy, puppyish, rambunctious, rampant, rank, riotous, roaring, rough, rough and tumble, rousing, rude, rumbustious, spicy, spirited, sweeping, torrential, tumultuous, turbulent, unchecked, ungovernable, unruly, untamed, vigorous, violent, wanton, zizzi), многоброен (manifold, many, multiform, multiple, multitudinous, numerous, strong), мрачен (black, bleak, cheerless, comfortless, darksome, dejected, depressing, dim, dingy, dismal, drab, drear, dumpish, dusky, forbidding, gaunt, gloomy, glum, grave, grey, grim, grisly, heavy, inhospitable, joyless, low-browed, lowering, melancholy, mirk, morbid, morose, murk, murky, obscure, sad, saturnine, somber, sombre, sullen, sunless, tenebrous, tristful), мъглив (brumous, damp, dull, foggy, hazy, misty, nebulous, vaporous, vapory, vapoury), мътен (cloudy, dim, dreggy, feculent, fishy, muddy, roily, sludgy, turbid, unclear), най-оживената част, дебел (ample, corpulent, dense, fat, obese, porky, puffy, pursy, stout), кален (feculent, miry, muddy, slimy, sloppy, sludgy, slushy, splashy, sticky, tempered), силно (audibly, fast, hard, heavily, high, highly, loud, loudly, mightily, slap, slap bang, sorely, strongly, vigorously), рунтав (bushy, fleecy, ragged, rough, scraggly, shag, shaggy), чест (frequent, honor, honour, minutely, rapid fire), черен (black, nigrescent, sable, sooty), тъпак (ass, blockhead, blunderhead, dimwit, dolt, dope, dumbbell, dunce, dunderhead, fool, jolterhead, leather-head, loggerhead, loon, lug, lummox, lunkhead, sheep's head, tomnoddy, witling, yo-yo), най-гъстата част, с пресипнал глас, начесто, гъсто (closely), гъст (bushy, dense, double, full-bodied, gross, heavy, impenetrable, rich, stiff, stringy, turbid, viscous), глупав (anserine, asinine, blackhearted, blithering, blockish, blunt, brainless, cockscomb, crass, daft, dense, dim witted, dopey, dopy, dozy, fat, fatuous, flat-footed, fool, foolish, footless, footling, goofy, hebetate, inane, inept, irrational, lame brain, lumpish, lunatic, mindless, mutton-headed, nonsensical, off one's nut, piffling, puddingy, puerile, purblind, sappy, senseless, silly, simple, slow witted, stockish, stupid, thick-skulled, thick-witted, tomfool, trumpery, unintelligent, unwise, vacant, vacuous, whacked, witless, wooden-headed), облачен (cloudy, heavy, nebulous, overcast), непроницаем (impenetrable, impermeable, impervious, proof, tight, unfathomable, unpenetrable), сбит (agglomerate, brief, compact, compendious, concise, epigrammatic, firm, lapidary, open, serried, succinct, summary, terse, tight), тъп (asinine, blunt, bovine, cloddish, crass, dense, dim, dim witted, dopey, dopy, dull, dumb, gross, hollow, impenetrable, lumpish, muddle-headed, obtuse, opaque, puddingy, purblind, slow, sodden, stupid, thick-headed, thick-witted, torpid, unpointed, wooden-headed). (various references)

   

Catalan

  

gros (bold, corpulent, fat). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

(assemble, collect, collection, dense, gather, grassy), (a plant in bloom), (coarse, crude, rough, rude, unfinished, vulgar), (crowded, dense, many), (embankment, generous), , 浓厚, (close, confidential, dense, secret). (various references)

   

Czech

  

tlustý (chunky, fat, fat and flabby, fatty, gross, large, overweight, rotund, stout), tlustì, tìžký (bad, chunky, dangerous, difficult, grave, grievous, hard, heady, heavy, labored, laboured, man-sized, ponderous, severe, stodgy, uphill, weighty), silný (bad, big, boisterous, good, hard, heady, heavy, hefty, high, large, lusty, mighty, muscular, potent, powerful, red blooded, robust, rude, rugged, stalwart, stiff, stocky, stout, strong, sturdy, tough, valid, vigorous, violent), přeplnìný (congested, crowded, overfull), nedýchatelný (close, stifling), kalný (bleary, cloudy, dim, dull, murky, turbid), hustý (bushy, close, close-grained, compact, dense, heavy, turbid), hustì (densely, heavily, thickly), hluboký (dead, deep, heavy, low, profound, utter), hloupý (awkward, brainless, cretinous, daft, dull, empty headed, fatuous, fat-witted, foolish, half-witted, inane, lame brain, logy, mutton-headed, silly, soft-brained, spoony, stupid, thickskulled), bujný (abundant, ample, coltish, Corky, exuberant, high-spirited, lush, luxuriant, rampant, rank, voluminous, wanton), èastý (common, frequent, frequentative, rife). (various references)

   

Danish

  

tyk (bold, corpulent, fat), tæt (concentrated, dense, narrow). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

gebonden (concentrated, dense), dik (bold, concentrated, corpulent, dense, fat, fatty, greasy), dicht (closed, compact, concentrated, dense, shut). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

dika (bold, corpulent, fat), densa (concentrated, dense). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

tjúkkur (abdominous, concentrated, dense, fat, stout), tættur (concentrated, dense). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

پرپشت (Exuberant, Lush, Rich, Steady), کلفت (Burly, Chambermaid, Charwoman, Girl, Housemaid, Squatty, Stocky, Woman), گل الود (Muddy, Shod, Turbid), گرفته (Dull, Eerie, Gruff, Hoarse, Muggy, Pokey, Set, Solemn), غلیظ (Caliginous, Dense, Heavy, Slab), تیره (Black, Caliginous, Dark, Gloomy, Heavy, Ilk, Indistinct, Lurid, Muddy, Murky, Nebulous, Obscure, Overcast, Turbid), سفت (Astringent, Callous, Concrete, Fast, Hard, Inelastic, Ironclad, Stark, Stiff, Taut, Tenacious, Tense, Tight, Tough, Wiry), ستبر (Big, Burly, Gross, Robust, Stalwart, Stout, Sturdy), زیاد (Copious, Extortionary, Far, Generous, Great, Heavy, High, Immoderate, Intense, Late, Liberal, Manifold, Many, Much, Populous, Rife, Superabundant, Too, Vast, Very, Wide), صخیم , انبوه (Aggregate, Bike, Clump, Collective, Congeries, Dense, Gross, Heap, Luxuriant, Rank, Riffraff, Voluminous), ابری (Cloudy, Heavy, Overcast). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

tiheä (close, concentrated, cramped, dense, frequent), paksu (bold, corpulent, dense, fat, stout). (various references)

   

French

  

gros, dense (thickset), épais (thin). (various references)

   

Frisian

  

tsjok (bold, corpulent, fat). (various references)

   

German

  

dick (big, bold, bulky, close, corpulent, fat, full, grossly, heavily, heavy, hefty, large, plump, stout, swollen, thickly, turbid, turbidly), dicht (close, closely, compact, concentrated, consistent, dense, densely, densly, heavy, leakproof, murky, serried, shut, solid, thickly, thickset, tight, tightly). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

πυκνόσ (compact, cramped, dense, serried, thickset), πυκνός (dense), παχυλόσ (crass), παχειά γραμμή (thick stroke), χονδρόσ (beefy, big, blocky, bluff, bouncing, burly, clumpy, clumsy, coarse, crass, gristle, gross, lubberly, lumpish, lumpy, pursy, stubbed, thickset), ηλίθιοσ (booby, clot, cretin, dopey, dull, dumb, fool, gawky, goofy, goon, idiot, idiotic, imbecile, mooncalf, moronic, nitwit, poky, sap-head, sheepish, sottish, stupid), λιπαρό μελάνι (greasy ink), θολόσ (blear, bleary, blurred, clouded, hazy, muddy, opaque, roily, splashy, turbid, woozy). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מעבה (condenser, thickener), שמן (adipose, buxom, corpulent, fat, fatty, fertile, fleshy, greasy, oil, robust, stout, unctuous), עובי (density, ply, thickness), עבות (cable, cord, dense, interwoven, rope, shaggy, tie), עבה (clumsy, coarse, gross), דחוס (compact, compressed, compression, crowded, dense, pressed, tight), צפוף (compacting, congested, crowded, dense, making dense, packed, thickening, thickset), סמיך (clogged, dense, turbid). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

vastag (bold, coarse, corpulent, crass, dense, fat, gross, monumental ignorance, podgy, stiff, to be in the chips), vastagon (to clump, to slather), sûrû (concentrated, consistent with, dense, frequent, thickish, tufty). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

tebal (dense), kandel (heavy, rich, well-to-do), gompyok (betasseled), gemuk (buxom, corpulent, fat, fertiliser, grease, plumpy, rich, stout), gemang (cylinder), gelintin (concentrated, sticky). (various references)

   

Italian

  

grosso (big, bold, bouncing, corpulent, fat, great, gross, heavy, important, large, lumping, portly, thickly), spesso (bold, corpulent, dense, fat, frequently, oft, often, regularly, soupy), denso (concentrated, dense, fraught, full, soupy). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

厚い (cordial, deep, kind, warm), 濃密 (crowded), 太い (fat). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

のうみつ (crowded), ちゅうみつ (crowded, dense, populous), もうもう (dense, dim), もうもうたる (dense, dim, vague), あつい (cordial, deep, faithful, hot, kind, serious, warm), あつで, こんだくした (cloudy, muddy, turbid), ちょうみつ (crowded, dense, populous), にくのあつい, きれがわるい (be dull, viscous), ふとい (fat), ふかい (add to, close, deep, discomfort, displeasure, profound, twist the meaning, unpleasant), ぶあつい (bulky, heavy, massive), うっそう (dense), うっそうたる (dense, luxuriant), うつぜん (dense, gloomy), こい (ancient ways, bad faith, carp, dense, entreaty, intention, love, purpose, request, strong, tender passion, the feelings of the ancients). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

두껍게 (Thicker, Thickest, thickly). (various references)

   

Manx

  

vooar rish y cheilley, roauyr (bulky, buxom, corpulent, fat, firm, fleshy, heavy, obese, overweight, plump, sleek, stiff, stout), neuhoiggaltagh (brainless, ignorant), mea (fat, luxuriant, rich), er cheeid, chiu (blubber, heavy, intense; foggy, stout, strong, strong as solution, thick-set, thick-set of hedge, turbid, whipped, whipped as cream). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

tykk (bold, corpulent, fat, gross). (various references)

   

Occitan

  

espés. (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

gordo (bold, corpulent, fat), diki (bold, corpulent, fat, thickness). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ickthay.(various references)

   

Polish

  

gruby (bold, corpulent, fat). (various references)

   

Portuguese

  

grosso (bulky, chuckle, corpulent, crass, fat, gross), espesso (bushy, concentrated, consistent, corpulent, crass, dense, fat, rank, sticky, stiff, succulent, thick-set, tufty), denso (close, compact, concentrated, consistent, crass, dense, heavy, serried, solid, stiff), compacto (close, compacted, concentrated, dense, massive, serried, solid, well-knit, well-set), cheio (bursting, chock-full, complete, flush, fraught, full, overflowing, overgrown, philoprogenitive, plump, prolific, rank, replete, round, stuffed, teeming, tumid), cerrado (bushy, closed, compact, concentrated, corral, dense, rank, serried, shut, thick-set, tight, vegetation of the brazilian interior), basto (abundant, concentrated, copious, dense, frequent, numerous, plentiful, profuse, thick-set). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

tulbure (cloudy, dim, feculent, filmy, muddy, troubled, turbid, unquiet, unsettled, vaguely), tãmâie (flattery, incense), mijloc (center, centre, depth, handle, instrumentality, mean, means, medium, method, middle, midst, resource, vehicle, waist, way), adânc (bottom, deep, deeply, depth, great, heavy, low, penetrating, profound, secret, sound, wise), centru (center, centre, downtown, heart, inside, navel, station, unit), cizmã (boot, bootee, jackboot, knee boot), clei (cerumen, fish glue, glue, gum, paste, pasting), dens (Cloggy, close, compact, dense, densely, gross, stiff, tight), des (abundant, copious, dense, densely, frequent, frequently, often, regularly, repeated, repeatedly, rife), exagerat (exaggerated, exaggerative, hyperbolic, inordinate, overmuch, profuse, regardless, steep, swollen, tall, theatrical, undue), excesiv (enormous, exceeding, exceedingly, excessive, excessively, exorbitant, extreme, intemperate, out, outrageous, plethoric, redundant, redundantly, to excess, undue, unduly, unreasonable), gros (abundantly, big, blubber, bulk, bulky, coarse, compact, densely, gross, highly, podgy, quod, stiff, stout, voluminous), îngroşat (callous), mare (acred, adult, ample, big, boundless, brine, broad, bulky, deep, dense, enormous, famous, fat, flux, foam, gorgeous, grand, grandiose, great, gross, hard, heavy, high, howling, huge, hulking, illustrious, immense, important, keen, king size, large, large scale, long, loose, major, man-sized, massy, mighty, open, pond, ponderous, pretty, renowned, rich, roomy, sea, sensible, severe, spacious, stupendous, tall, thundering, vast, violent, voluminous, wide), umbros (adumbral, darksome, shady, umbrageous), murdar (base, basely, bawdy, dingy, dirty, dungy, filthy, foul, foully, frowzy, greasy, grimy, grubby, impure, mangy, messy, nasty, piggish, piggy, poky, scurrilous, seedy, shabby, slimy, slovenly, smeary, smutty, soppy, sordid, sordidly, squalid, Tarry, unclean, untidy), parte cãrnoasã a piciorului, parte mai densã, plin de (fraught with, full of, lousy with), profund (abstruse, deep, deeply, home-felt, keen, profound, profoundly, rootedly, sound, thorough, thoughtful), rãguşit (gruff, hoarse, husky, muddy, raucous, rusty, woolly), stufos (beetle, branchy, bushy, dense), inimã (bosom, bowel, breast, center, centre, character, conscience, core, heart, hearts, life, mind, soul, ticker). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

хриплый (breathy, hoarse, husky, muddy, raucous, throaty, wheezy), чаща (covert, thicket), тупой (blockish, blunt, dense, dim witted, dim-witted, doltish, dug, dull, fat-witted, goofy, gormless, heavy, logy, muddle-headed, obtuse, pig-headed, po-faced, pointless, puddingy, purblind, slow witted, slow-witted, stolid, stupid, timberheaded, timber-headed, wooden-headed), тупица (blinker, blockhead, boeotian, bonehead, bone-head, cabbage-head, duffer, dullard, dunce, goof, goon, leather-head, lob, lubber-head, nerd, numbskull, numskull, thickhead), толстый;плотный;густой, толстый (abdominous, fat, fleshy, gross, paunchy, porky, stout, stubby, well-fed), густой (bushy, dense, viscous), мутный (cloudy, dreggy, feculent, roily, turbid), жирный (adipose, bloated, corpulent, fat, fatty, lardy, obese, oily, pinguid, porky, rank, tallowy), плотный (burly, close, compact, dense, hard, massive, solid, tight, tough), плотно (densely, hermetically, tightly), дремучий (dense). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

tiugh (closely set, dense, in quick succession), reamhar (fat, gross, plump), guaigean (meaning `little whimsical fellow'). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

pun (complete, filled, fraught, full, full of, rife, teeming, whole), najgušći deo, mutan (bleary, dim, dingy, feculent, lacklustre, mat, matted, muddy, roily, troubled, turbid), intiman (become intimate, hail fellow, heart-to-heart, intimate), gust (bushy, dense, stiff), dubok (abysmal, deep, profound), debeo (beefy, fat, full, gross, large, obese, plump, porky, tubby), bujan (ample, curvaceous, dense, exuberant, lush, luxuriant, rampant, rank, riotous, torrential, wild). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

grueso (bold, coarse, corpulent, fat, fatty, full, greasy, gross, heavy, hulking, thickness), espeso (bushy, crass, deep, dense, dirty, heavy, matted, soupy, stiff, thickish, untidy), denso (closely, dense, heavy, light, solid, thickset, tight). (various references)

   

Sranan

  

fatu (bold, corpulent, fat, grease), deki (bold, corpulent, fat). (various references)

   

Swahili

  

-nono (bold, corpulent, fat), nono (bold, corpulent, fat), -nene (bold, corpulent, fat), nene (bold, corpulent, fat). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

tjock (bold, chubby, chunky, corpulent, dense, fat, fleshly, fleshy). (various references)

   

Tagalog

  

makapál (bold, corpulent, fat). (various references)

   

Thai

  

เหนียว (gluey, glutinous, sticky, tacky, tenacious), โง่ (brainless, dipstick, dizzy, dull, dumb, foolish, lumpish, muddle-headed, nerdy, oafish, silly, simple, simple-minded, stockish, thickheaded, thick-witted), ส่วนที่หนาแน่นที่สุด, สนิทสนม, ที่เด่นชัด, ที่ไม่ชัดเจน, อย่างหนา, หนาแน่น (tight), หนาทึบ (thickset), หนา (pycno-). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yoğun (busy, compact, concentrated, crash, dense, gross, hectic, intense, intensive, peasoupy, rich, rush hour, stiff, turbid), yakın (adjacent, akin, akin to, approximate, at hand, by, close, close to, close-rage, connate, connected, connection, connexion, contiguous, convenient, familiar, handy, hard, hard by, immediate, imminent, inseparable, intimate, near, near at hand, nigh, not far, pending, proximate, relative, within reach, within walking distance), sisli (foggy, gauzy, hazy, misty), sık (close, dense, frequent, often, thickly), koyu (black, crusted, darkish, deep, dense, dyed in the wool, intense, peasoupy, sable, sad, saturated, somber, sombre, stiff, strong, tenebrous), kalınlık (crassness, denseness, density, diameter, stoutness, thickness), kalın kafalı (bonehead, bone-headed, chucklehead, dense, dim, dull, fat-headed, mutton head, numskull, obtuse, slow on the uptake, slow witted, thickheaded, thick-headed, thickskulled, thickwitted, wooden, woodenheaded), kalın (coarse, dense, grave, stout), fazla (big, de trop, excess, excessive, extra, in excess of, much, out, over, rising of, spare, super-, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus, too, unneedful), en heyecanlı yeri, en çok olduğu yer, dumanlı (foggy, hazy, nebulous, Reeky, smoky), boğuk (cavernous, croaky, flat, guttural, hoarse, husky, raucous, tubby), belirgin (blazing, clear, clear-cut, distinct, distinctive, evident, explicit, manifest, marked, prominent, pronounced, salient, sharp cut, upfront), aşırı (acute, beastly, beyond, breakneck, camp, confoundedly, cruelly, crusted, damned, dead, deep, desperate, desperately, devilish, disproportionate, every other day, exaggerated, exceeding, excessive, excessively, exorbitant, exquisite, extortionate, extravagant, extreme, extremely, fancy, ferocious, filthy, fond, fulsome, hard, heavy, hell, hell of, high, horrendous, horrific, hyper-, immoderate, inordinate, intense, intensive, like hell, like sin, outrageous, over, overweening, precious, shocking, splitting, steep, super, terribly, ultra, unbounded, unco, unconscionable, undue, unmeasured, unreasonable, violent). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

syk (density), яygy (deep, dense), я, kьti, goяy (dense), goяry (dense), gьr (dense), galyс, зiюik (big, large). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

розпал, щільний (air proof, compact, dense, massive, sclerotic, tight, turbid), хаща (brake, jungle, thicket, thick-set), часто (again, frequently, oft, often, oftentimes, oft-times, time and again), частий (frequent, hourly), товсто, товстий (abdominous, corpulent, fat, fubsy, lumpish, obese, podgy, porky, portly, pudgy, rotund, sizable, sizeable), густо (densely), густий (creamy, dense, grouty, opaque, solid, stodgy, velvet, velvety), гущавина (thicket), неясно (ambiguously, darkly, obscurely, vaguely), завтовшки, приглушений (murmurous, muted, obscure, obtuse, still, sullen). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

thân thiết quán nhiều, thái quá đầy, tán dương hết lời, trong bất cứ điều kiện nào, lè nhè thân, cứng; mệt nhọc, có nhiều ca ngợi hết lời, chỗ dày nhất chỗ tập trung nhất, chỗ dày nhất chính giữa, chỗ mập nhất, dày (stipate), dày to, dày đặc khó, đần độn không rõ, kiên cường mạo hiểm vì người nào, mập đặc, nặng nề (carking, clumpish, onerous, stodgy), rậm (thickset), rậm rạp ngu đần, sền sệt dày đặc, khó khăn (arduous, arduously, difficult, hard, kittle, thorny, uneasy). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

trwchus, tew (fat, plump), praff (stout), ffyrf (stout), braisg (big, gross, large, pregnant). (various references)

   

Yucatec

  

polok (bold, corpulent, fat). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Thick

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Sumerian3100 BCE-2500 BCE

kul. (various references)

Greek700 BCE-300 CE

packhys. (various references)

Latin500 BCE-Modern

carnatus, condensa, condensam, condensis, condensisque, congesto, congestorum, consolidabo, consolidastis, consolidatae, crassus, crassus,, creber, densae, densarum, densum, densus, grossior, grossiora, grossis, grossos, inpinguabitur, inpinguasti, inpinguat, inpinguati, inpinguatus, inpinguet, obesus, pingue, pinguem, pingues, pingui, pinguia, pinguibus, pinguis, pinguissima, pinguissimae, pinguissimo, pinguissimum, pinguissimus, pinguium, profundus, spissos. (various references)

Late Latin300-700

bassus, grossus. (various references)

Dutch700-Modern

plomp. (various references)

Old French900-1400

gros. (various references)

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