podgy

(ˈpɒdʒɪ)

adj, podgier or podgiest

short and fat; chubby

Also called (esp US): pudgy

ˈpodgily adv

ˈpodginess n

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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Adj.

podgy - short and plump

pudgy, roly-poly, tubby, dumpy

fat - having an (over)abundance of flesh; "he hadn't remembered how fat she was"

podgy

adjective tubby, fat, plump, chubby, squat, stout, chunky, fleshy, stubby, dumpy, roly-poly, rotund, stumpy, short and fat a blond, slightly podgy youngster

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Translations

قَصير وسَمين

zavalitý

buttettyk

untersetzt

rondelet

òybbinn, stuttur og digur

tozzo

trumpas ir storas

druknsīss un strups

şişkoşişman

矮胖的

podgy

[ˈpɒdʒɪ] ADJ (podgier (compar) (podgiest (superl))) (esp Brit) → gordinflón; [face] → mofletudo

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podgy

[ˈpɒdʒi] adj [person, body, cheeks] → rondelet(te)

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

podgy

adj (+er) (Brit inf) → rundlich, pummelig; face → schwammig; podgy fingers → Wurstfinger pl; podgy face → Mondgesicht nt (inf)

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podgy

[ˈpɒdʒɪ] adj (-ier (comp) (-iest (superl))) → traccagnotto/a

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

podgy

(ˈpodʒi) pudgy (ˈpadʒi) adjective

plump; fat.

ˈpodginess, ˈpudginess noun

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References in classic literature

The undertaker was a little fat Jew with curly black hair, long and greasy, in black, with a large diamond ring on a podgy finger.

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Kutuzov, with his uniform unbuttoned so that his fat neck bulged over his collar as if escaping, was sitting almost asleep in a low chair, with his podgy old hands resting symmetrically on its arms.

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That was when some podgy red-sealed blue-crossed letter arrived from Vailima, inviting me to journey thither.

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It's all hum-drum, and podgy, and slow-going, any going so long as you get there heaven knows when.

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The babies that they dandled have become grown men and women with podgy torments of their own, and the playmates that they laughed with are lying very silent under the waving grass.

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Just beneath us there was such a one of great size and luxurious appearance, with its owner, a fat old man, leaning out, half his gross body through the window, and his podgy hand, gleaming with diamonds, outstretched as he urged his chauffeur to make a last effort to break through the press.

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With his hat and stick held in one hand he glanced about, passing his other podgy hand over his uncovered sleek head.

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"And you would sit on one of the four little podgy, buttony, tasselly red chairs that are ranged on the other side of the table facing the sofa.

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At that time I used to know a podgy, wealthy, bald little man having chambers in the Albany; a financier too, in his way, carrying out transactions of an intimate nature and of no moral character; mostly with young men of birth and expectations--though I dare say he didn't withhold his ministrations from elderly plebeians either.

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looks like year-old Cadwalladder " After Ben then started to retain fluid and look "podgy", doctors at the Newcastle's Great North Children's Hospital diagnosed his condition.

From life-threatening illness to sport success, thanks to Mum's kidney

EX-SOCCER star Jamie O'Hara had liposuction yesterday to get rid of a podgy tum at the age of 31.

Midfield ace Jamie's lipo on his midriff

As a podgy teen I was money, real-life and obsessed with weighing myself.

Kate Thinslet