What does tubby mean?
Tubby means stout, rotund.
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/ˈtʌbi/ · adjective
stout, rotund.
Grace bent to her oars with a springing verve and force which made the tubby little boat draw towards the shore, the whispering lapse of water gliding under its sides all the while.
The clerk vanished, to be replaced a minute later by a tubby Indian with exhausted, visionary eyes.
a tubby violin
Use tubby when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Tubby means stout, rotund.
Common synonyms include fat, pudgy, podgy, dumpy.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Grace bent to her oars with a springing verve and force which made the tubby little boat draw towards the shore, the whispering lapse of water gliding under its sides all the while.
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