tubby adj : short and fat [syn: dumpy, podgy, pudgy] [also: tubbiest, tubbier]

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ʌbi

Adjective

1. stout, rotund

Derived terms

• tubbiness

Translations

• French: dodu, rondelet

Noun

1. In the context of "pejorative|slang": An overweight person. Term is commonly used to tease obese children and adults.

Derived terms

• Teletubby

Tubby can refer to:

• Tubby tuck, the famous rapper.
• King Tubby, a dub musician
• Tubby Hall, a jazz drummer
• A. A. Englander, a cinematographer
• a character in the Little Lulu comic strip
• one of the Bash Street Pups, a comic strip
• William Tubby, the Brooklyn architect
• Tubby, the canine fatality of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge disaster
• Tubby Smith, University of Minnesota Basketball Coach; former head coach of University of Kentucky
• Tubby protein, a family of proteins with a characteristic tertiary structure implicated in obesity

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