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tubby, a.|ˈtʌbɪ|
[f. tub n. + -y.]
Resembling or suggesting a tub.
1. Tub-shaped, tub-like; of rounded outline, and stout or broad in proportion to the length; of a person, corpulent.
1835Anster tr. Faustus ii. v. (1887) 269 Come, short-horned, thick Devils, tubby, stubby. 1859Sala Tw. round Clock (1861) 14 They are mostly square and squat in rigging, and somewhat tubby in build. 1885Pall Mall G. 9 June 2/2 In 1690..he [Stradivarius] began to improve his model, bringing it flatter, the great secret of the true violin as opposed to the old tubby model. 1891Kipling Plain Tales from Hills vii. 54 Fat Captains and tubby Majors. 1905Westm. Gaz. 21 Mar. 4/2 Driving a tubby [motor] car.
2. Sounding like a tub when struck; dull or wooden in sound. Of a sound of this quality.
1806–7J. Beresford Miseries Hum. Life (ed. 3) xvi. 90 The dead, lumpish, tubby tones of the fourth and fifth strings of the guittar. 1883Haweis My Musical Life (1884) I. 95 He [the violin] goes ‘tubby’ (a term used to express a dull vibration). 1940Chambers's Techn. Dict. 869/2 Tubby.., characterised by reverberant booming for frequencies which are familiar when barrels are struck. 1962A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio 243 Boomy, subjective description of a sound quality which has resonances in the low frequencies, or a broad band of bass lift. Expressions with similar shades of meaning are tubby or, simply, bassy. 1981Popular Hi-Fi Mar. 81/3 Drum sound was tubby on both decks. |