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tubbier

tubbier is the comparative form of tubby.

Meaning of tubby

Adjective

tubby (comparative tubbier, superlative tubbiest)

  1. stout, rotund
    • Grace bent to her oars with a springing verve and force which made the tubby little boat draw towards the shore, the whispering lapse of water gliding under its sides all the while.1895, S. R. Crockett, A Cry Across the Black Water
  2. Resembling a tub
  3. sounding dull and without resonance or freedom of sound.
    • a tubby violin

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Questions about tubbier

What is tubbier the comparative form of?
Tubbier is the comparative form of tubby.

Words near tubbier in the dictionary

  1. tubber
  2. Tubbercurry
  3. Tubbergen
  4. tubbers
  5. tubbie
  6. tubbier
  7. tubbies
  8. tubbiest
  9. tubbily
  10. tubbiness
  11. tubbing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tubbier (page history and authors); tubby (page history and authors). 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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