pudgy

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: pudg=y

CIDE DICTIONARY

pudgy, a. 

 Short and fat or sturdy; dumpy; podgy; as, a short, pudgy little man; a pudgy little hand.  Thackeray.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

pudgy, adj. (pudgier, pudgiest) colloq. (esp. of a person) plump, thickset.

Derivative

pudge n. pudgily adv. pudginess n.

Etymology

cf. PODGY

THESAURUS

pudgy

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