chub·by
adj \ˈchə-bē\chub·bi·erchub·bi·est
— chub·bi·ness\ˈchə-bē-nəs\ noun
Examples of CHUBBY
- He was always chubby as a child.
- <the chubby baby had slimmed down by the time she was a toddler>
Origin of CHUBBY
chubFirst Known Use: 1722
Related to CHUBBY
Synonyms: blubbery,
fat,
corpulent,
fleshy,
full,
gross,
lardy,
obese,
overweight,
plump,
podgy [
chiefly British],
portly,
pudgy,
replete,
roly-poly,
rotund,
round,
tubby Related Words: beefy,
bulky,
chunky,
heavy,
heavyset,
plumpish,
stocky,
stout,
thick,
thickset,
weighty;
brawny,
burly,
hefty,
husky;
dumpy,
squat,
stubby;
hippy,
paunchy,
potbellied;
flabby,
soft;
ample,
buxom,
corn-fed,
ripe,
zaftig (
also zoftig);
endomorphic Near Antonyms: angular,
bony (
also boney),
gaunt,
lank,
lanky,
rawboned,
sinewy;
cadaverous,
emaciated,
haggard,
pinched,
skeletal,
wasted;
puny,
scraggy,
scrawny,
slight;
rangy,
reedy,
spindling,
spindly,
stringy,
svelte,
sylphlike,
twiggy,
waspish,
weedy,
willowy;
ectomorphic;
anorexic Rhymes with CHUBBY
bubby,
clubby,
cubby,
grubby,
hubby,
nubby,
scrubby,
shrubby,
snubby,
stubby,
tubby 
