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[ puhj-ee ] / ˈpʌdʒ i / SEE SYNONYMS FOR pudgy ON THESAURUS.COM
adjective, pudg·i·er, pudg·i·est.short and fat or thick: an infant's pudgy fingers. Also especially British, podgy. Origin of pudgyFirst recorded in 1830–40; origin uncertain OTHER WORDS FROM pudgypudg·i·ly, adverbpudg·i·ness, nounWords nearby pudgypudendal artery, pudendal canal, pudendal nerve, pudendum, pudge, pudgy, pudic, Pudovkin, Pudsey, pudu, Puducherry Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for pudgyHe is a pudgy, bespectacled, homburg-wearing cuckold of a Sherlock in those fish-grey postwar years of 1970s England. Iran’s Top Spy Is the Modern-Day Karla, John Le Carré’s Villainous Mastermind|Michael Weiss|July 2, 2014|DAILY BEAST The young, professional players indulged the pudgy kingpin as he kicked his ball around in the dirt. Pablo Escobar’s Private Prison Is Now Run by Monks for Senior Citizens|Jeff Campagna|June 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST A pudgy, bald man in a suit and sweater ensemble stands in an opening between two of the newly erected walls. This Cairo College Campus Is Now a 'Warzone'|Jonathan Krohn|February 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST He was a pudgy young boy and eventually fell in with a bad crowd. Mike Tyson Opens Up About His Rape Conviction, Brad Pitt, and Love of Pinkberry|Marlow Stern|November 6, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Some hung-over mornings he looks into the mirror and finds a pudgy Nosferatu looking back at him. My Week At An Austrian Fat Camp|Owen Matthews|October 27, 2013|DAILY BEAST "Don'd ged so oxcited, sir," cautioned the Dutch boy, with a wave of one pudgy hand. Frank Merriwell's Chums|Burt L. Standish The pudgy man gazed at the little man calmly and sneeringly. As he began to divide this into five parts, still using the flat of his pudgy hand, something poked him lightly in the ribs. The Flaming Jewel|Robert W. Chambers It was set off by a pudgy, half-formed dab of a nose that let his breath in and out when his mouth happened to be shut. The Bishop of Cottontown|John Trotwood Moore But most of all, she hated to see his fat, pudgy hands touching her food. Regiment of Women|Clemence Dane
British Dictionary definitions for pudgy
adjective pudgier or pudgiesta variant spelling (esp US) of podgy Derived forms of pudgypudgily, adverbpudginess, nounWord Origin for pudgyC19: of uncertain origin; compare earlier pudsy plump, perhaps from Scottish pud stomach, plump child Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to pudgychubby, plump, hefty, rotund, round, stout, tubby, plumpish |