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podgy

adjective , chiefly British

Synonyms and Antonyms of podgy

having an excess of body fat

a podgy little bookseller with a shop in Notting Hill

Synonyms of 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

ample, buxom, corn-fed, ripe, zaftig (also zoftig)

Near Antonyms of 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

Antonyms of podgy

lean, skinny, slender, slim, spare, thin

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