chubby

ˈt͡ʃʌbi

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#1·1d ago

Of a body part: containing a moderate amount of fat.

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#2·1d ago

A chubby, plump person.

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#3·1d ago

Of a person: slightly overweight, somewhat fat, and hence plump, rounded, and soft.

Obviously the chubby child was eating too much.

Origin: Recorded since 1611, from short, thick fish species used as bait"; used metaphorically since 1558 for "lazy person, an assibilated form of a lump, heap, mass and cob, from (found only in derivative a block to which an animal is tethered), from , block, stump, log and/or , equivalent to . Cognate with dialectal . More at chub. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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