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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 (tubbier; -est) Date: circa 1807 1. sounding dull and without proper resonance or freedom of sound <a tubby violin> 2. pudgy, fat

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (tubbier, tubbiest) 1 (of a person) short and fat; tub-shaped. 2 (of a violin) dull-sounding, lacking resonance. Derivatives: tubbiness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Tubby Tub"by, a. Resembling a tub; specifically sounding dull and without resonance, like a tub; wanting elasticity or freedom of sound; as, a tubby violin.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(tubbier, tubbiest) If you describe someone as tubby, you mean that they are rather fat. (INFORMAL) = chubby ADJ

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, 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