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Definition

tubby /'tʌbi/ adj ( rather infml ) ဂင္တို။ a tubby little man. ❍ FAT adj

Examples

1. ‘The tubby volunteers will eat low-calorie food prepared by a celebrity chef
2. work out three times a day
3. and try to avoid the ‘temptation fridge’ containing all their favourite fattening snacks.’
4. ‘A short
5. tubby man with wire rimmed glasses came waddling out
6. a fourth grader I recognized from school in front of him.’
7. ‘Right as I was thinking that the door swung open and a small tubby woman came speeding through and sat down on the chair at the other side of the desk.’
8. ‘The tubby pooch is helping launch a week-long scheme offering free health checks to pets - particularly those battling with obesity.’
9. ‘On the other hand
10. this will not be a great night for couture designers; Jack is a driven character
11. but also short
12. tubby and bedraggled
13. heedless of fashion's demands.’
14. ‘The defiant stare
15. too
16. would have made a subtle effect
17. emphasised by the averted
18. pixellated face of the tubby
19. shorter guard.’
20. ‘At first we didn't have a lot in common: he's a middle aged east African Asian with a knowing smile
21. while I'm a tubby ham-fisted writer without much sense of the world.’
22. ‘Even as the tubby principal shouted
23. doors smacked against the walls and a horde of young teenagers filled the immediate area.’
24. ‘The other was short and tubby with curly black hair and brown skin.’
25. ‘Of his accomplices
26. one was about 6ft tall and tubby
27. and wore shorts
28. a red checked shirt and sandals.’
29. ‘Since his medication seems to have made him less energetic and incredibly gluttonous
30. he's getting rather tubby now.’
31. ‘Hummingbirds and little tubby warblers darted among the trees.’
32. ‘The match pitted a tubby American bloke against a skinny British bloke
33. both of whom seemed to take an eternity to compose themselves before each shot.’
34. ‘The door was opened by a short tubby girl with spectacles.’
35. ‘A tubby girl with short blonde hair sat in a seat far in the back.’
36. ‘I cannot imagine any other country believing that the image it wants to present in the 21st century is of tubby politicians in national costume.’
37. ‘We paused to scrutinise tree tops for the green
38. blue and yellow birds
39. and were rewarded by several pairs of the tubby ungainly fowl.’
40. ‘Whereas Costello was short and tubby
41. Woodley was tall and stick thin
42. but he was nonetheless hilariously adept at comedic facial expressions and body language.’
43. ‘His accomplice is white
44. 5ft 11 in
45. tubby or of large build
46. but not as big as the first suspect.’
47. ‘The teacher was a short tubby lady with wiry brown hair that was constantly in her face.’