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Tubby   /tˈəbi/   Listen
Tubby

adjective
1.
Short and plump.  Synonyms: dumpy, podgy, pudgy, roly-poly.






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"Tubby" Quotes from Famous Books



... weavin' about like that, Tubby. Can't you let a guy get some sleep. I'll hand you a cold rebuff in the ribs in a minute. Wazzer matter with ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, Aug. 22, 1917 • Various

... Puff. "And look, Fluffy, from this other window. What a fine play-ground! Oh! Possy, do give us tubby-rubby quickly, and let us get out ...
— Five Mice in a Mouse-trap - by the Man in the Moon. • Laura E. Richards

... old Tubby, who hasn't recovered from his 1918 dose of shell-shock, got a go of claustrophobia and felt he simply had to ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, May 7, 1919. • Various

... you must mean a quiver, Tubby; because whenever you laugh or tremble you make me think of a ...
— The Boy Scouts on Belgian Battlefields • Lieut. Howard Payson

... and down before the gate with two guards at his heels. All day long birch canoes and log dugouts and tubby pirogues and crazy rafts of loose-lashed pine logs drifted to our water-front with bands of squalid Indians bringing their pelts. Skin tepees rose outside our palisades like an army of mushrooms. Naked brats with wisps ...
— Heralds of Empire - Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade • Agnes C. Laut


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