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chubby
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chubby
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective chubby has 1 sense
- chubby(s = adj.all) embonpoint, plump - sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure; "a chubby child"; "pleasingly plump" Derived form noun chubbiness1
OXFORD DICTIONARY
chubby, adj. (chubbier, chubbiest) plump and rounded (esp. of a person or a part of the body).
Derivative
chubbily adv. chubbiness n.
Etymology
CHUB
THESAURUS
chubby
adipose, ample, beefy, big-bellied, bloated, blocky, blowzy, bosomy, brawny, burly, buxom, chunky, corpulent, distended, dumpy, fat, fattish, fleshy, full, gross, heavy, heavyset, hefty, hippy, imposing, lusty, meaty, obese, overweight, paunchy, plump, podgy, portly, potbellied, pudgy, puffy, pug, pugged, pursy, retrousse, roly-poly, rotund, round, roundabout, snub-nosed, square, squat, squattish, squatty, stalwart, stocky, stout, strapping, stubbed, stubby, stumpy, swollen, thick-bodied, thickset, top-heavy, tubby, turned-up, well-fed
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