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单词 tubby
释义
tubbytub‧by /ˈtʌbi/ adjective informal Word Origin
WORD ORIGINtubby
Origin:
1800-1900 tub
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • He's getting a bit tubby -- too much of his wife's cooking I expect.
  • The banker was a tubby, jolly-looking man.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • He had won three world titles by the time he faced a tubby, bespectacled Ulsterman in the 1985 final.
  • He was a small, tubby man wearing a bulky suit with a belted jacket.
  • Oscar reminded Horowitz of the Michelin tyre man - short and tubby, his belly bulging behind his belt, round-headed.
Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorfat and not very tall
someone, especially a woman or child, who is dumpy , is short and fat: · Clara was a plain, dumpy woman, several years older than her husband.· In his youth, William had been a dumpy little boy who ate too many sweets.· I think this skirt makes me look dumpy.
someone who is tubby is short and has a fat, round stomach: · The banker was a tubby, jolly-looking man.· He's getting a bit tubby -- too much of his wife's cooking I expect.
someone, especially a middle-aged person, who is stout is short and fat: · A stout woman in a tweed coat was standing outside the door.· Amy was now stout and matronly, the mother of three children.
short and slightly fat, with a round stomach SYN  plump:  a tubby little man
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