puppy fatnoun [ U ]
uk/ˈpʌp.i ˌfæt/us/ˈpʌp.i ˌfæt/UK US baby fatfat that a child sometimes has that disappears as the child grows older:
He's a little overweight but it's just puppy fat.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Animal physiology: fat or well-built
- ample
- baby fat
- beefy
- blubber
- broad in the beam idiom
- buxom
- chubby
- dumpy
- fatness
- fatten sb/sth up
- fatty
- heavyset
- husky
- meaty
- middle-age spread
- obesity
- pudgy
- roly-poly
- rotund
- well built
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