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pudgy
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective pudgy has 1 sense
- pudgy(s = adj.all) dumpy, podgy, roly-poly, tubby - short and plump; Array Derived forms noun pudge1, noun pudginess1
CIDE DICTIONARY
pudgy, a.
Short and fat or sturdy; dumpy; podgy; as, a short, pudgy little man; a pudgy little hand. Thackeray. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
pudgy, adj. (pudgier, pudgiest) colloq. (esp. of a person) plump, thickset.
Derivative
pudge n. pudgily adv. pudginess n.
Etymology
cf. PODGY
THESAURUS
pudgy
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, podgy, portly, potbellied, puffy, pug, pugged, pursy, retrousse, roly-poly, rotund, round, roundabout, snub-nosed, squab, 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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