Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Like a tub; tubby; round and fat.

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Examples

  • I realized after the warmth returned to my blood that it wasn't a bathtub at all, but just a deluxe size tubbish shrine to the Virgin Mary.

    It Wasn't Me. Chris Braiotta 2011

  • He was a short, round, large – faced, tubbish sort of man, with a broad – brimmed hat, and a square coat; and had that grave, but confident, kind of roll, peculiar to old boys in general.

    Sketches by Boz 2007

  • The very thoughts of it, however the English auxiliaries may have felt on the subject, gave an attack of fever to the unfortunate inhabitants, who devoutly prayed for a speedy fall of _tubbish_, (or snow,) by which his dreaded approach might be impeded.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. Various

  • He was a short, round, large - faced, tubbish sort of man, with a broad-brimmed hat, and a square coat; and had that grave, but confident, kind of roll, peculiar to old boys in general.

    Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people Charles Dickens 1841

  • We may depend upon it that they are the lineal descendants of those old sea-rovers, somewhat more civilised and polished certainly, differing as much in that respect, it is to be hoped, from their remote ancestors as do their trim yachts, which will go nine knots or more within four and a-half points of the wind, from the tubbish-looking sturdy craft of the Danes, which had no idea of sailing any way except dead before the gale.

    How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

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