pudgy


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pudg·y

 (pŭj′ē)
adj. pudg·i·er, pudg·i·est
Somewhat fat; chubby: a pudgy face. See Synonyms at fat.

[From pudge, something thick and short.]

pudg′i·ness n.
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pudgy

(ˈpʌdʒɪ)
adj, pudgier or pudgiest
a variant spelling (esp US) of podgy
[C19: of uncertain origin; compare earlier pudsy plump, perhaps from Scottish pud stomach, plump child]
ˈpudgily adv
ˈpudginess n
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pudg•y

(ˈpʌdʒ i)

adj. pudg•i•er, pudg•i•est.
short and fat or thick: an infant's pudgy fingers.
[1830–40; orig. uncertain]
pudg′i•ly, adv.
pudg′i•ness, n.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.pudgy - short and plump
fat - having an (over)abundance of flesh; "he hadn't remembered how fat she was"
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pudgy

adjective
Well-rounded and full in form:
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Translations

pudgy

[ˈpʌdʒi] (US) adj (= podgy) [person, body, cheeks] → potelé(e)
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It had a great mouth, with a row of sharp teeth a foot long; but its head was joined to the pudgy body by a neck as slender as a wasp's waist.
Skinner, gathering up the reins in her pudgy hands.
He sat there, slowly tapping the sides of the chair with his pudgy fingers.
You know the kind, cheek-bones wide apart, chin and forehead melting into the cheeks to complete the perfect round, and the nose, broad and pudgy, equidistant from the circumference, flattened against the very centre of the face like a dough-ball upon the ceiling.
They have audaciously adjusted, in the name of "good taste," upon the wounds of gothic architecture, their miserable gewgaws of a day, their ribbons of marble, their pompons of metal, a veritable leprosy of egg-shaped ornaments, volutes, whorls, draperies, garlands, fringes, stone flames, bronze clouds, pudgy cupids, chubby- cheeked cherubim, which begin to devour the face of art in the oratory of Catherine de Medicis, and cause it to expire, two centuries later, tortured and grimacing, in the boudoir of the Dubarry.
The stables were reached, and there in the doorway, lay Collie, a half-dozen pudgy puppies playing about her in the sun.
"Come home and have some tiffin, Dobbin," a voice cried behind him; as a pudgy hand was laid on his shoulder, and the honest fellow's reverie was interrupted.
The notion of symbolizing sexual love by a semisexless babe, and comparing the pains of passion to the wounds of an arrow -- of introducing this pudgy homunculus into art grossly to materialize the subtle spirit and suggestion of the work -- this is eminently worthy of the age that, giving it birth, laid it on the doorstep of prosperity.
He kissed his pudgy hand aloft into the night and held warmly on.
Joshua was an 11-1 favorite to win against the pudgy Ruiz, who, quoting Rocket from the movie, Avengers: Endgame describing an equally pudgy Thor as 'looking like melted ice cream.' Well, this Mexican-American melted ice cream-looking pugilist now holds three heavyweight title straps.
Monday, when she got on the bus there was a bus full of dirty, pudgy pigs, who shouted at her, "You are not dirty and pudgy like us!...To the back of the bus!" Grudgingly, irritated by the rudeness of the pigs, Rosa walked to the back of the bus.
superior had and pinched Grove fringe judges And pudgy r when no chance saw aptly named winneQuasi Modo.