Pudge
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /pʌd͡ʒ/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Pudge is a noun meaning Something short and fat.
Meaning
Something short and fat.
More Meanings
- Excess body fat.
Example Sentences
Their faces are long and graceful and missing the pudge of the others.
He is high-booted (over rather skinny legs), with a tiny bit of a paunch showing, an intimation of genital endowment, and a sort of nice half smile (a tidge of pudge in the cheeks and jowls), his left hand leaning against and rather caressing a very bold phallic cannon's spout.
2002, extract from Christine Lincoln, Sap Rising, in Marita Golden, E. Lynn Harris (editors), Gumbo: An Anthology of African American Writing, Random House (Broadway Books), page 676, The smell of her skin and hair after I have given her a bath, me nibbling at the layers of pudge on her legs and arms, around her neck—I drown in the scent of all that innocence.
Word Forms
- pudges
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include pudsy, pudding, podge, pudsey, pouch, plumpy.
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