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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: short and plump [syn: dumpy, podgy, pudgy, tubby, roly-poly]

Merriam Webster's

adjective (podgier; -est) Etymology: podge something pudgy Date: 1846 chiefly British pudgy

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (podgier, podgiest) 1 (of a person) short and fat. 2 (of a face etc.) plump, fleshy. Derivatives: podginess n. Etymology: 19th c.: f. podge a short fat person

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Podgy Podg"y, a. Fat and short; pudgy.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you describe someone as podgy, you think that they are slightly fat. (BRIT INFORMAL; in AM, use pudgy) ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Dumpy, fat, pudgy.

Moby Thesaurus

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