Synonyms of podgy

podgy

adjective

ˈpä-jē 

chiefly British

as in plump

having an excess of body fat

a podgy little bookseller with a shop in Notting Hill

Synonyms & Similar Words

• plump
• fat
• round
• chubby
• pudgy
• full
• corpulent
• rotund
• obese
• tubby
• overweight
• thick
• stout
• fleshy
• portly
• husky
• blubbery
• lardy
• gross
• heavy
• roly-poly
• replete
• ripe
• stocky
• bulky
• beefy
• soft
• chunky
• flabby
• heavyset
• thickset
• burly
• stubby
• paunchy
• squat
• dumpy
• potbellied
• brawny
• plumpish
• weighty
• hefty
• hippy
• buxom
• ample
• endomorphic
• corn-fed
• zaftig
• zoftig

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• thin
• slender
• skinny
• lean
• slim
• bony
• angular
• lanky
• gaunt
• sinewy
• spare
• skeletal
• rawboned
• lank
• haggard
• scrawny
• puny
• emaciated
• cadaverous
• pinched
• wasted
• scraggy
• slight
• stringy
• weedy
• svelte
• spindly
• willowy
• twiggy
• boney
• waspish
• reedy
• rangy
• anorexic
• sylphlike
• ectomorphic
• spindling

Examples of podgy in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

There are approximately 83 species of cactuses in Arizona, from podgy pin-cushion barrels to the rare senitas beckoning the sun with long arms to the majestic saguaros, the mascot of Arizona. —Jill Cassidy, The Arizona Republic, 23 Nov. 2021