Usually means: Chubby, slightly overweight, endearingly plump.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. tubby: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tubby: Merriam-Webster
  3. tubby: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tubby: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tubby: Collins English Dictionary
  6. tubby: Vocabulary.com
  7. Tubby, tubby: Wordnik
  8. tubby: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. tubby: Wiktionary
  10. tubby: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. tubby: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. tubby: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. tubby: Dictionary.com
  14. tubby (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Tubby: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Tubby: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. tubby: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. tubby: Rhymezone
  19. Tubby: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. tubby: FreeDictionary.org
  21. tubby: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. tubby: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tubby: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tubby: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. tubby: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom

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Definitions from Wiktionary (tubby)

▸ adjective:  stout, rotund
▸ adjective:  Resembling a tub
▸ adjective:  sounding dull and without resonance or freedom of sound.
▸ noun:  (derogatory, slang, often used teasingly) An overweight person.

Similar:
podgy, fat, pudgy, dumpy, tubbish, subrotund, rotund, fubby, chubbed, squabbish, more...

Types:
chubby, pudgy, plump, fat, overweight, big, more...

Phrases:
King Tubby, Tubby Smith, Tubby Hayes, more...

Adjectives:
old, little, poor, unhappy, good


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Similar:
podgy, fat, pudgy, dumpy, tubbish, subrotund, rotund, fubby, chubbed, squabbish, more...

Types:
chubby, pudgy, plump, fat, overweight, big, more...

Phrases:
King Tubby, Tubby Smith, Tubby Hayes, more...

Adjectives:
old, little, poor, unhappy, good



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