释义 |
tubbytub‧by /ˈtʌbi/ adjective informal  tubbyOrigin: 1800-1900 tub - He's getting a bit tubby -- too much of his wife's cooking I expect.
- The banker was a tubby, jolly-looking man.
- 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.
fat and not very tall► dumpy 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. ► tubby 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. ► stout 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 |