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PUDGY (pudgier, pudgiest)
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, pudgiest Dictionary entry overview: What does pudgy mean?
• PUDGY (adjective)
The adjective PUDGY has 1 sense:
1. short and plump
Familiarity information: PUDGY used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Declension: comparative and superlative |
Superlative: pudgiest
Sense 1
Meaning:
Short and plump
Synonyms:
dumpy; podgy; pudgy; roly-poly; tubby
Similar:
fat (having an (over)abundance of flesh)
Derivation:
pudge (a short fat person)
pudginess (the property of having a plump and round body)
Context examples
It had a great mouth, with a row of sharp teeth a foot long; but its head was joined to the pudgy body by a neck as slender as a wasp's waist.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
The stables were reached, and there in the doorway, lay Collie, a half-dozen pudgy puppies playing about her in the sun.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
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