chubby

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: chub=by

CIDE DICTIONARY

chubby, a. 

 Like a chub; plump, short, and thick.  I. Taylor.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

chubby, adj. (chubbier, chubbiest) plump and rounded (esp. of a person or a part of the body).

Derivative

chubbily adv. chubbiness n.

Etymology

CHUB

THESAURUS

chubby

adipose, ample, beefy, big-bellied, bloated, blocky, blowzy, bosomy, brawny, burly, buxom, chunky, corpulent, distended, dumpy, fat, fattish, fleshy, full, gross, heavy, heavyset, hefty, hippy, imposing, lusty, meaty, obese, overweight, paunchy, plump, podgy, portly, potbellied, pudgy, puffy, pug, pugged, pursy, retrousse, roly-poly, rotund, round, roundabout, snub-nosed, square, squat, squattish, squatty, stalwart, stocky, stout, strapping, stubbed, stubby, stumpy, swollen, thick-bodied, thickset, top-heavy, tubby, turned-up, well-fed