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Synonyms for pudgy

Most common

fat chubby tubby roly-poly

All synonyms

Adjective

1. Tubby — fat, overweight (pertaining particularly to children), plump; chubby

tubby, chubby, roly-poly, fat, rotund, overweight, full-figured, fleshy, stout, podgy, dumpty, portly, corpulent, plump, obese, chunky, adipose

Definitions

  1. adj. 1

    Fat, overweight (pertaining particularly to children), plump; chubby.

    The pudgy child had a difficult time running the mile.

Related words

Phrases
pudgy wudgy

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.
  • tubby My ex-wife started a new life with the tubby postman.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
pudgyrising
fatrising
chubbyrising
tubbyrising

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

By length

3 letters
fat1
5 letters
obese2, stout1, plump1, tubby2, podgy
6 letters
chubby2, chunky2, fleshy2, dumpty2, portly2, rotund2
7 letters
adipose3
9 letters
corpulent
10 letters
overweight3

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (obese2 = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français
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