pudgy

pudgy

adjective \ˈpə-jē\

pudg·i·erpudg·i·est

Definition of PUDGY

: being short and plump : chubby

— pudg·i·ness noun

Examples of PUDGY

1. <at this point the pudgy toddler is still cute, but she will have health problems if she continues to be overweight>

Origin of PUDGY

origin unknown

First Known Use: 1836

Related to PUDGY

Synonyms

blubbery, chubby, corpulent, fleshy, full, gross, lardy, obese, overweight, plump, podgy [chiefly British], portly, fat, replete, roly-poly, rotund, round, tubby

Antonyms

lean, skinny, slender, slim, spare, thin

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 PUDGY

budgie, kludgy, sludgy