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tubby
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective tubby has 1 sense
- tubby(s = adj.all) dumpy, podgy, pudgy, roly-poly - short and plump; Array Derived form noun tubbiness1
CIDE DICTIONARY
tubby, a.
Resembling a tub; specifically sounding dull and without resonance, like a tub; wanting elasticity or freedom of sound; as, a tubby violin. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
tubby, adj. (tubbier, tubbiest)
1 (of a person) short and fat; tub-shaped.
2 (of a violin) dull-sounding, lacking resonance.
1 (of a person) short and fat; tub-shaped.
2 (of a violin) dull-sounding, lacking resonance.
Derivative
tubbiness n.
THESAURUS
tubby
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, pudgy, puffy, pug, pugged, pursy, retrousse, roly-poly, rotund, roundabout, snub-nosed, square, squat, squattish, squatty, stalwart, stocky, stout, strapping, stubbed, stubby, stumpy, swollen, thick-bodied, thickset, top-heavy, turned-up, well-fed, white plague
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