tubby

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: tub=by

CIDE DICTIONARY

tubby, a. 

 Resembling a tub; specifically sounding dull and without resonance, like a tub; wanting elasticity or freedom of sound; as, a tubby violin.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

tubby, adj. (tubbier, tubbiest)
1 (of a person) short and fat; tub-shaped.
2 (of a violin) dull-sounding, lacking resonance.

Derivative

tubbiness n.

THESAURUS

tubby

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, pudgy, puffy, pug, pugged, pursy, retrousse, roly-poly, rotund, roundabout, snub-nosed, square, squat, squattish, squatty, stalwart, stocky, stout, strapping, stubbed, stubby, stumpy, swollen, thick-bodied, thickset, top-heavy, turned-up, well-fed, white plague