Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as pudgy.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Fat and short; pudgy.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Slightly fat.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective short and plump

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Examples

  • It's all hum-drum, and podgy, and slow-going, any going so long as you get there heaven knows when.

    Chapter 19 2010

  • The occasionally deadly, often podgy striker has been jailed for a week for taking part in an assualt on three students in Cairo along with a team-mate from Egyptian giants Zamalek, where Mido now plays.

    tiki-taka: QPR's Neil Warnock puts the boot in on DJ Campbell 2011

  • Sure, there'd be weightlifters in the gym and selected movie stars who were 'built' but everybody else was either weedy or podgy, with only the odd natural Adonis scattered in between.

    The Guyliner: Do I Really Need a Six-Pack to Make an Impact? Why I'm Sticking With the Body I've Got The Guyliner 2011

  • Sure, there'd be weightlifters in the gym and selected movie stars who were 'built' but everybody else was either weedy or podgy, with only the odd natural Adonis scattered in between.

    The Guyliner: Do I Really Need a Six-Pack to Make an Impact? Why I'm Sticking With the Body I've Got The Guyliner 2011

  • Pasty-faced, podgy and skint, all you have to look forward to is a month of evenings contemplating the wreckage of your house, the nullity of your bank balance and the whistling of the icy winds down your Santa-free chimney.

    How do I get… someone to take me on holiday in January 2012

  • She may be cute, but the latest top model to make her debut in Vogue is also podgy with short legs and whiskers.

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  • He reluctantly surrendered them to the vicar's podgy hands, and came round to stand behind the Reverend Wakefield and peer over his shoulder, as though he could not bear to let the papers out of his sight for a moment.

    Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

  • We'd barely stepped into the lobby when he cried to J.B. that here was someone he must meet - and who should it be but the podgy Senator who'd tried to dragoon me into this business in the first place, and whom I'd last seen outside Seward's cabin.

    THE NUMBERS 2010

  • When he looked back at me, he would have seen a podgy 21-year-old lying in bed, reading Proust.

    Once upon a life: Toby Litt 2010

  • And given how challenged I am, fashion-wise (not because I can't dress well, but because either I've been too podgy or too tired or too whatever -- but I'm working on that!) it's odd how much I do love it.

    This'n'that ... karenmiller 2008

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