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chubby

chub·by
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [chuhb-ee]
    • /ˈtʃʌb i/
    • /ˈtʃʌb.i/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [chuhb-ee]
    • /ˈtʃʌb i/

Definitions of chubby word

  • adjective chubby A chubby person is rather fat. 3
  • adjective chubby (esp of the human form) plump and round 3
  • adjective chubby round and plump; fleshy 3
  • adjective chubby round and plump: a chubby child; a chubby face. 1
  • noun chubby Plump and rounded. 1
  • noun chubby A chubby, plump person. 0

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Origin of chubby

First appearance:

before 1605
One of the 40% oldest English words
First recorded in 1605-15; chub + -y1

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Parts of speech for Chubby

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

chubby popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 77% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

chubby usage trend in Literature

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Synonyms for chubby

adj chubby

  • portly — rather heavy or fat; stout; corpulent.
  • flabby — hanging loosely or limply, as flesh or muscles; flaccid.
  • chunky — A chunky person is broad and heavy.
  • pudgy — short and fat or thick: an infant's pudgy fingers.
  • stout — bulky in figure; heavily built; corpulent; thickset; fat: She is getting too stout for her dresses. Synonyms: big, rotund, stocky, portly, fleshy. Antonyms: thin, lean, slender, slim; skinny, scrawny.

adjective chubby

  • fat — File Allocation Table
  • obese — very fat or overweight; corpulent.
  • overweight — weighing too much or more than is considered normal, proper, etc.: overweight luggage; an overweight patient; two letters that may be overweight.

Antonyms for chubby

adj chubby

  • skinny — very lean or thin; emaciated: a skinny little kitten.
  • lean — to incline or bend from a vertical position: She leaned out the window.
  • thin — having relatively little extent from one surface or side to the opposite; not thick: thin ice.
  • slim — slender, as in girth or form; slight in build or structure.

adjective chubby

  • slender — having a circumference that is small in proportion to the height or length: a slender post.

Top questions with chubby

  • how to get rid of chubby cheeks?
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