podgy
/ˈpɒdʒi
/adjective (podgier, podgiest) British informal
(Of a person or part of their body) rather fat; chubby: he put a podgy arm round Alan’s shoulders...
- The man wasn't tall, quite the contrary, he was podgy with a round, smiling face.
- I know what I am, I'm podgy, so why get insulted about it?
- Last time I went there was April Fools' Day last year when it was practically deserted but for half a dozen podgy guys dancing on a smoky dance floor to So Macho.
Synonyms
chubby, plump, fat, fattish, stout, rotund, buxom, well upholstered, well covered, well padded, of ample proportions, ample, roly-poly, round, rounded, well rounded, full, chunky, broad in the beam, dumpy, portly, overweight, fleshy, paunchy, bulky
informal tubby, pudgy, porky, blubbery, poddy
British informal fubsy
North American informal zaftig, corn-fed, lard-assed
archaic pursy, abdominous
Derivatives
podginess
- Here was a fellow who looked podgy, and podginess immediately makes people think that you mustn't be able to run, you mustn't be able to do anything.
Rhymes
- metempsychotically
- metencephalic
- metencephalon
- met-enkephalin
- metenkephalin
- metensomatosis
- metenteron
- meteor
- Meteora
- meteor bumper
- meteor cloud
- meteor dust
- meteoric
- meteorically
- meteoric stone
- meteorism
- meteorismus
- meteorist
- meteoristic
- meteorite
- meteoritic
- meteoritical
- meteoritically
- meteoriticist
- meteoritics