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podgy

/ˈpɒd͡ʒi/US/ˈpɑd͡ʒi/

podgy adjective: slightly fat.

Adjective

podgy (comparative podgier, superlative podgiest)

  1. (informal) Slightly fat.
    Synonyms:
    chubby, pudgy, rotund, stout
  2. (archaic) Stodgy.
    • When you have got him [the horse] clean from all soft podgy food, you must be particular that none but what is clean and wholesome is served to him.1820, Sporting Magazine, page 112

podgy meaning in Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

podgy in Urdu

موٹا

podgy in Bengali

কিছুটা মোটা, ভারী

podgy in Malayalam

plump, chubby, fat
തടിച്ചുമുണ്ടനായ, തടിച്ച് കുള്ളനായ, കട്ടയാനായ തടിച്ചുകുറുകിയ, പുഷ്ടിയുള്ള, കൊഴുത്ത, മേദുരമായ

Synonyms of podgy

Forms of podgy

comparativepodgier
superlativepodgiest

Origin of podgy

From podge + -y.

Words formed from podgy

Words that rhyme with podgy

Questions about podgy

What does podgy mean?
Podgy means slightly fat.
What is podgy in Urdu?
Podgy in Urdu is موٹا. See Podgy meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is podgy?
Podgy is an adjective.
How do you pronounce podgy?
Podgy is pronounced /ˈpɒd͡ʒi/ (UK).

Words near podgy in the dictionary

  1. podginess
  2. Podgorač
  3. Podgorica
  4. Podgorski
  5. Podgorskis
  6. podgy
  7. Podhale
  8. podhead
  9. podheads
  10. Podhoretzian
  11. podia

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: podgy (page history and authors); podgy (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); podgy (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); podgy (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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