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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure; "a chubby child"; "pleasingly plump"; [syn: chubby, embonpoint, plump]

Merriam Webster's

adjective (chubbier; -est) Etymology: chub Date: 1722 plump <a chubby boy> • chubbiness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (chubbier, chubbiest) plump and rounded (esp. of a person or a part of the body). Derivatives: chubbily adv. chubbiness n. Etymology: CHUB

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Chubby Chub"by, a. Like a chub; plump, short, and thick. ``Chubby faces.'' --I. Taylor.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(chubbier, chubbiest) A chubby person is rather fat. Do you think I'm too chubby? ...his chubby hands. ? skinny ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. See chubbed

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

Round-faced, plump.

Moby Thesaurus

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