podgyadj.

1832 Figaro in London 1 Dec. 208/1 The deep furrows in his podgy and inexpressive countenance.

1846 W. M. Thackeray Notes Journey Cornhill to Cairo iii. 37 I wish I had had a shake of that trembling, podgy hand.

1856 H. Mayhew Upper Rhine 143 A shaggy, podgy, black pony.

1858 J. R. Green Lett. (1901) 26 The slow oily stream, beneath whose willows lurked..podgy perch.

1898 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. V. 832 Massage is very useful in emaciated or podgy people.

1929 H. Walpole Hans Frost ii. iii. 142 She saw..how podgy his hands were.

1977 ‘J. le Carré’ Honourable Schoolboy i. i. 25 George: a podgy ill-sighted little body in very round spectacles.

1992 S. Sontag Volcano Lover ii. v. 245 A podgy man in black livery, the chamberlain, stood at the threshold of the greater entrance.

2003 C. Birch Turn again Home xxx. 336 His mum sat on his dad's knee, even though they were just on ordinary podgy little old couple.

1866 Englishwoman's Domest. Mag. 1 237/2 His body is round, podgily soft, and so transparent that if you hold him up to the light you can see his little heart beating.

1893 ‘J. S. Winter’ Aunt Johnnie I. 2 She was not only fat, but she was podgily fat.

1988 Herald (Australia) (Nexis) 9 Nov. (Taste section) 12 William Robinson..mildly sets himself up, a bit podgily on an even more podgy horse.

2003 Art Q. Spring 80/1 On the right, a laughing Buddha chuckles podgily to himself, baring his fat stomach.

1872 J. C. Jeaffreson Woman in Spite of Herself I. x. 171 Podginess is a growing evil. When it has once seized upon a man it never leaves him.

1924 Glasgow Herald 3 Jan. 6 The average Briton of to-day retains the lithe carriage..of youth at an age when his Early-Victorian ancestor had long subsided into whiskered podginess.

1993 Sporting Dog Dec. 34/1 The term ‘puppy fat’ is used to refer to podginess in any young animal (including humans!).

2010 H. Sounes Fab ii. 23 A pale, unsporty lad with a tendency to podginess, Paul was no teenage Adonis.