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podgy
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective podgy has 1 sense
- podgy(s = adj.all) dumpy, pudgy, roly-poly, tubby - short and plump; Array
OXFORD DICTIONARY
podgy, adj. (podgier, podgiest)
1 (of a person) short and fat.
2 (of a face etc.) plump, fleshy.
1 (of a person) short and fat.
2 (of a face etc.) plump, fleshy.
Derivative
podginess n.
Etymology
19th c.: f. podge a short fat person
THESAURUS
podgy
adipose, beefy, big-bellied, bloated, blocky, blowzy, bosomy, brawny, burly, buxom, chubby, chunky, corpulent, distended, dumpy, fat, fattish, fleshy, full, gross, heavyset, hefty, hippy, imposing, lusty, meaty, obese, overweight, paunchy, plump, 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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