EN

Synonyms for porky

Most common

fat chubby chunky tubby

Synonyms by meaning

Adjective

1. Fat — rather fat; chubby

fat, chubby, tubby, chunky, fleshy

Noun

Other

porcupine, chubster informal

Definitions

  1. adj. 1

    Rather fat; chubby.

  2. n. 1

    A lie.

Related words

Word family
porker
Phrases
porky pie
Other spellings
porkie

Forms

Plural
porkies → porkers, plumpers, porcupines, chubsters…

Example sentences

  • fat Between you and me, the fat ugly man is on a diet.
  • chubby Tom told me that he thought that Mary was chubby.
  • chunky Hummus can be chunky, or a total puree, or anywhere in between.
  • tubby My ex-wife started a new life with the tubby postman.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
porkyrising
fatrising
chubbyrising
chunkyrising
tubbyrising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters
fat1
5 letters
tubby2
6 letters
chubby2, chunky2, fleshy2, porker2
7 letters
plumper
8 letters
chubster
9 letters
porcupine3

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (tubby2 = 2 syllables).