Definitions
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- noun The state of being
tubby ;chubbiness .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the property of having a plump and round body
Etymologies
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Examples
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I am just under five-foot-four, with an unfortunate tendency to tubbiness.
Rowing the ATLANTIC Roz Savage 2009
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I am just under five-foot-four, with an unfortunate tendency to tubbiness.
Rowing the ATLANTIC Roz Savage 2009
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I'm all for not caring about my last bit of tubbiness too!
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Or anything that involves me worrying about those last inches of tubbiness around my hips or whether I've still 'got it.'
Archive 2007-04-08 2007
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Or anything that involves me worrying about those last inches of tubbiness around my hips or whether I've still 'got it.'
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Its long skirts accentuated the tubbiness of his body, the shortness of his legs.
In the Days of the Comet Herbert George 2006
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Gord, for all his tubbiness, was in the thick of it, red-faced and shouting and flailing away.
Shaman's Crossing Hobb, Robin 2005
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Its long skirts accentuated the tubbiness of his body, the shortness of his legs.
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"Add to that," Havel said, "the fact that I was overweight and the other children, as children will, laughed at my tubbiness."
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The word deployed to describe the nation's twin disease of tubbiness and laziness is 'slothfulness'.
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