Adjective, : a tubby child. From Dictionary.com.
I know that he's the kind of tubby one that's, you know -- (CROSSTALK). From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 13, 2009] Reference
By calling you a teletubby was she infering that you were looking a little 'tubby' or just plain weird. From Wordnik.com. [Stuff My Wife Says That Disturbs Me] Reference
The man was described as aged between 20 and 30 years, around 5ft 11ins tall, of "tubby" build, with shoulder length, black hair. From Wordnik.com. [Newbury News Today | News] Reference
2) Plus, Guess which wife of a certain tubby Vice-President was on Lockheed’s Board of Directors from 1994 until the 2001 inaugural?. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Selling In Circles] Reference
The tubby little journalist was no hero-worshipper. From Wordnik.com. [Swirling Waters] Reference
No more jockeying those tubby old rocket-pots to Luna!. From Wordnik.com. [Next Door, Next World] Reference
The tubby little political commissar was still glaring. From Wordnik.com. [Counting Up, Counting Down]
“Fine day,” said Popaul, who was a tubby little man. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and the Headless Corpse]
I dismounted from the tubby little mare and looked around. From Wordnik.com. [Shaman's Crossing]
Not the tubby, grinning bald chap she saw in this snapshot. From Wordnik.com. [Proust has a lot to answer for] Reference
He was so tubby he'd probably look rectangular from the back. From Wordnik.com. [Hunter,Healer[SequeltoTheSociety]]
tubby, tubby two by four, couldn't fit through the air lock door. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 24, 2009] Reference
She was this tubby girl with a round face painted black and a hood on. From Wordnik.com. [sierrazen Diary Entry] Reference
Warcraft were far fewer than tubby merchantmen or humble fishing smacks. From Wordnik.com. [Hokas Pokas]
The tubby tabby was dropped off at the Humane Society in Washington State. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 28, 2009] Reference
This man was tubby; the other, the one who put the tarpaper down, was thin. From Wordnik.com. [Hard Rain]
"He'll fit right in with the rest of the tubby, wheezing human beachballs.". From Wordnik.com. [unclebob Diary Entry] Reference
Dantziger, the examining magistrate, was short and tubby and casually dressed. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and the Bum]
This is in response to Sean's thoughtful, yet a tad tubby, rant from yesterday. From Wordnik.com. [The Real Mousse] Reference
Everybody is talking about this tubby tabby who weighs in - are you ready for this?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 31, 2008] Reference
Cleo danced along beside him, her tubby body jiggling as he headed for the back door. From Wordnik.com. [Annie, Get Your Guy & Messing Around With Max]
There followed Rivière into the next room a tubby rosy-faced little man, brisk and smiling. From Wordnik.com. [Swirling Waters] Reference
The young knight rode a solid dun cob and had a tubby Galwegian pack pony on a leading rein. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
A tubby cheerful bloke in trousers and singlet emerged from the engine of a derelict one-tonner. From Wordnik.com. [The Vatican Rip]
Likewise armored, his tubby form tramped to where a yachi stood tethered for him, a lance beside it. From Wordnik.com. [Hokas Pokas]
A plump scarlet mite, the size of a match-head, struggled like a tubby huntsman through the forest of moss. From Wordnik.com. [My Family and Other Animals]
Holly was a tubby middle-aged woman who had moved to a little cottage in Drim after the death of her husband. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Scriptwriter]
A little tubby man, Communist member for a North Country constituency, came through the group of men and knelt down. From Wordnik.com. [The Nursing Home Murder]
They were waiting for her: half a dozen child-sized aliens with round, almost tubby bodies, big eyes, and no visible ears. From Wordnik.com. [Dirge]
When things were blousy and boxy — remember when Karl Lagerfeld was tubby and he always wore those Comme Des Garcons suits? —. From Wordnik.com. [Fashion���s Midget Moment: Bryant Park Tents Billow With Teensy Togs] Reference
Do the staff at fast food outlets warn their customers they shouldn't upgrade to the large fries because they're a bit tubby already?. From Wordnik.com. [gargy Diary Entry] Reference
We stayed there for the afternoon playing with various toys and pretending to eat tubby-toast before driving back in the heaving rain. From Wordnik.com. [bumpsadaisy Diary Entry] Reference
Mental Health: (C+) Still skating my away around severe depression, but the whole being lonely and tubby thing is sort of getting to me. From Wordnik.com. [elfpvke Diary Entry] Reference
I would describe him as thickset, stocky rather than tubby, muscular rather than fat, though he did put on a bit of weight toward the end. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and the Headless Corpse]
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