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单词 pudgy
释义

pudgy

adjective

ˈpə-jē How to pronounce pudgy (audio)
pudgier; pudgiest
: being short and plump : chubby
pudginess noun

Synonyms

  • blubbery
  • chubby
  • corpulent
  • fat
  • fleshy
  • full
  • gross
  • lardy
  • obese
  • overweight
  • plump
  • podgy [chiefly British]
  • portly
  • replete
  • roly-poly
  • rotund
  • round
  • tubby
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Example Sentences

The baby wrapped her pudgy little hand around my finger.
Recent Examples on the Web The bagels at Boichik Bagels have the look of Labrador puppies curled up for afternoon naps: soft and pudgy, golden roly-polys (practically made for that old puppy-or-bagel meme). New York Times, 8 Mar. 2021 One day, a white taxi pulled up, and a slightly pudgy man in his late thirties went inside. Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2020 Coffee, this film’s profane, pudgy protagonist, could be N.W.A.’s cutely obnoxious, dreads-wearing progeny. Armond White, National Review, 10 Apr. 2020 The rubber tail and legs wiggle enticingly, a bit of flash in the head or abdomen helps fish track the fly though treetops and weed beds, and the pudgy belly must look like a triple cheeseburger to panfish. T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 12 Mar. 2020 One of the new liberties Song clearly prizes is the ability to depict nudity, whether painting a pudgy tyrant in the raw or a shapely woman wrapped only in a filmy North Korean flag. Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2020 But in their first training camp together, Samuel seemed on the edge of becoming, well, pudgy. Joe Schad, USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2020 But overcook it, and even a pudgy tortilla can lose its tenderness. New York Times, 7 Oct. 2019 In addition to poop, Tala Madani’s paintings have featured lonely sad sacks who vomit rainbows, feral infants who sketch with urine and pudgy everymen who ejaculate patterns worthy of Abstract Expressionist paintings. Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2019 See More

Word History

Etymology

origin unknown

First Known Use

1788, in the meaning defined above

Kids Definition

pudgy

adjective

ˈpə-jē How to pronounce pudgy (audio)
pudgier; pudgiest
: being short and plump : chubby

pudgy

adjective

as in plump
having an excess of body fat the short and pudgy toddler had transformed into a tall, strapping teenager

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • plump
  • fat
  • chubby
  • round
  • rotund
  • corpulent
  • tubby
  • obese
  • overweight
  • full
  • husky
  • portly
  • podgy
  • stout
  • blubbery
  • fleshy
  • lardy
  • thick
  • gross
  • roly-poly
  • heavy
  • stocky
  • ripe
  • heavyset
  • beefy
  • replete
  • bulky
  • paunchy
  • soft
  • burly
  • flabby
  • stubby
  • dumpy
  • chunky
  • thickset
  • brawny
  • potbellied
  • squat
  • plumpish
  • buxom
  • zaftig
  • hippy
  • weighty
  • hefty
  • endomorphic
  • ample
  • corn-fed
  • zoftig

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • skinny
  • thin
  • slender
  • lean
  • lanky
  • slim
  • gaunt
  • bony
  • angular
  • scrawny
  • sinewy
  • skeletal
  • haggard
  • rawboned
  • spare
  • emaciated
  • lank
  • cadaverous
  • puny
  • pinched
  • svelte
  • wasted
  • willowy
  • slight
  • spindly
  • scraggy
  • weedy
  • stringy
  • boney
  • rangy
  • reedy
  • twiggy
  • waspish
  • anorexic
  • sylphlike
  • ectomorphic
  • spindling
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