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podgy

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chiefly British

Synonyms & Antonyms of podgy

having an excess of body fat

a podgy little bookseller with a shop in Notting Hill

Synonyms for podgy

blubbery,
chubby,
corpulent,
fat,
fleshy,
full,
gross,
lardy,
obese,
overweight,
plump,
portly,
pudgy,
replete,
roly-poly,
rotund,
round,
tubby

Words Related to podgy

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 for podgy

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

Antonyms for podgy

lean,
skinny,
slender,
slim,
spare,
thin

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