tubby
/ˈtʌbi
/adjective (tubbier, tubbiest)
1 informal Short and rather fat: a small, tubby man...
- Since his medication seems to have made him less energetic and incredibly gluttonous, he's getting rather tubby now.
- On the other hand, this will not be a great night for couture designers; Jack is a driven character, but also short, tubby and bedraggled, heedless of fashion's demands.
- The defiant stare, too, would have made a subtle effect, emphasised by the averted, pixellated face of the tubby, shorter guard.
Synonyms
chubby, plump, stout, roly-poly, dumpy, chunky, broad in the beam, portly, rotund;
buxom, well upholstered, well covered, well padded, of ample proportions, ample, round, rounded, well rounded;
fat, overweight, fleshy, paunchy, pot-bellied, bulky, corpulent
informal pudgy, beefy, porky, blubbery, poddy
British informal podgy, fubsy
North American informal zaftig, corn-fed, lard-assed
rare pursy, abdominous
2(Of a sound) lacking resonance; dull (as that of a tub when struck): historic classical recordings with a tubby overall sound...
- One would think that all those cellos would produce a thick, tubby sound, but Boulez's rhythmic and contrapuntal virtuosity keep the music lively and athletic.
- The Stokowski recording is a bit tubby here but it is an exciting performance.
Derivatives
tubbily
- I dodged him and then kicked his behind sending him tubbily with arms flailing into the next section.
- Many a Westerner undoubtedly came to consider those performances - often rough, blowsy and tubbily recorded, with basses to the fore - idiomatic, if only by default.
- He's a funny character, but a bit more gimmicky than the majestically, sexily, tubbily Peter!
tubbiness
- Similarly, using a bass control to correct tubbiness or muddy bass response also falls short of success.
- And tubbiness is a leading contributor to high blood pressure and heart disease, one of our biggest killers.
- The reflectors give the soundboard the more optimum grand piano shape, enhancing the treble, providing longer sustain, eliminating tubbiness in the bass, while helping provide clarity of tone.