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单词 pudgy
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pudgyadj.1

Brit. /ˈpʌdʒi/, U.S. /ˈpədʒi/
Origin: Apparently formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pudge n.2, -y suffix1.
Etymology: Apparently < pudge n.2 (although this is apparently first attested later) + -y suffix1. Compare earlier puddy adj. and later podgy adj. Perhaps also compare earlier pudsy adj.
Short and thick or chubby; fat.
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the world > life > the body > bodily height > shortness > [adjective] > and broad
short shoulderedc1405
bunting1584
squaddy1593
chubby1611
truncheon1611
squat1630
squabbish1666
truss1674
squab1675
squad1675
stocky1676
punch1679
trunch1683
squat1688
stub1711
fodgel1724
thick-set1724
puddy1747
chunky1749
dumpy1750
squabby1754
knurly1758
clunch1776
trunchy1778
fubsy1780
punchy1780
humpty-dumpty1785
trunched1787
pudgy1788
fubby1790
runty1807
squattish1809
roly-poly1818
stumpy1822
hoddy-doddy1824
spuddya1825
hodmandod1825
stubby1831
podgy1832
fubsical1834
dumpty1847
fatling1847
stuggy1847
nuggety1856
cloddy1876
blocky1879
chumpy188.
cobby1883
squidgy1891
stockish1913
pyknic1925
humpisha1935
the world > space > shape > condition of being short and thick or broad > [adjective]
stoba1500
stubbeda1529
stubbleda1529
strunt1577
stumpy1600
chubby1611
stumpish1618
chubbed1674
squat1684
chubbish1685
chub1688
squabbed1694
cloddy1712
clavellated1713
pluggy1720
squab1723
puddy1747
tubbish1786
stunt1788
bunting1808–25
dumpy1808
clumpy1820
dubby1825
stubby1831
chunky1833
snubbed1835
tubby1835
pudgy1862
squatty1881
squidgy1891
1788 in Bk. Old Edinb. Club (1942) 24 23 George Sandy exchanged his saw, Drawing Blad & Pudgy ruler for a Mahogany ruler.
1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. I. 7 The vestry-clerk..is a short, pudgy little man, in black.
1843 W. M. Thackeray Ravenswing i, in Fraser's Mag. Apr. 475/1 Their fingers is always so very fat and pudgy.
1862 Athenæum 27 Sept. 403 A very short, pudgy omnibus.
1883 O. Schreiner Story Afr. Farm i. xii. 126 She was a tall, pudgy girl of fifteen, weighing a hundred and fifty pounds, with baggy, pendulous cheeks and up-turned nose.
1917 J. B. Cabell Cream of Jest iii. iv. 124 The pudgy pasty man of forty-odd who..lay..breathing heavily and clasping a bit of metal in his pudgy hand.
1949 F. Swinnerton Doctor's Wife comes to Stay 81 Mossy, in her cotton dress, a duster in the pudgy right hand..was at her most characteristic.
1989 Texas Monthly Oct. 34/1 Pudgy burritos owe their merit to outstanding flour tortillas.
2006 Contra Costa (Calif.) Times (Nexis) 23 June f4 Michael's unhealthy lifestyle makes him just a few beats away from having a heart attack—gobbling Twinkies, working late and getting pudgy.

Derivatives

ˈpudginess n.
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1887 Cent. Mag. Aug. 545/1 He would have been characterized as the pudgy man; and even his pudginess was aggressive.
1939 B. D. Wolfe Diego Rivera xvi. 194 Pudgy hands, unexpectedly small..and tapering off, despite their pudginess, into almost slender fingers.
1990 J. Fane Hope Cottage 13 Wendy Aylward is about fifty, plump to the point of pudginess.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

pudgyadj.2

Brit. /ˈpʌdʒi/, U.S. /ˈpədʒi/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pudge n.1, -y suffix1.
Etymology: < pudge n.1 + -y suffix1.
English regional (midlands and south-western). Now rare.
Resembling or suggestive of a pudge; muddy, swampy; watery; viscous.
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1827 J. Clare Shepherd's Cal. 162 And litter'd straw in all the pudgy sloughs.
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Can't work this here paint 'thout some more oil, 'tis so pudgy's wex.
a1903 H. Kingsford in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1903) 638/2 You mustn't put too much, linseed makes it sa soft and pudgy else.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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