Definition of chubby
- a chubby boy
He was always chubby as a child.
the chubby baby had slimmed down by the time she was a toddler
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blubbery, corpulent, fat, fleshy, full, obese, overweight, plump, portly, pudgy, replete, roly-poly, rotund, round, tubby;
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;
beefy, bulky, chunky, heavy, heavyset, plumpish, stocky, stout, thick, thickset, weighty;
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