tubby
/ˈtʌbi/
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Ireland/ˈstʊbi/
tubby adjective: stout, rotund.
Adjective
tubby (comparative tubbier, superlative tubbiest)
- 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
- The clerk vanished, to be replaced a minute later by a tubby Indian with exhausted, visionary eyes.1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy
- Resembling a tub
- sounding dull and without resonance or freedom of sound.
- a tubby violin
Noun
tubby (plural tubbies)
- An overweight person.
tubby meaning in Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada
tubby in Bengali
- স্থূলকায়, গোলাকার, টাবের মতো, একজন অতিরিক্ত ওজনের ব্যক্তি
tubby in Malayalam
- plump, chubby, stout
- തടിച്ചുപൊക്കം കുറഞ്ഞ, കൊഴുത്തുരുണ്ട, മാംസള, മാംസപുഷ്ടിയുള്ള, പുഷ്ടിയുള്ള, കൊഴുത്ത
tubby in Kannada
- ಕುಳ್ಳಗೆ ದಪ್ಪಗಿರುವ, ಸ್ಥೂಲಕಾಯದ, ಗುಂಡುಗುಂಡಾಗಿರುವ
Forms of tubby
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | tubbier |
| superlative | tubbiest |
| Noun | |
| plural | tubbies |
Origin of tubby
From tub + -y. False cognate with chubby, even though they are often interchangeable.
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Questions about tubby
- What does tubby mean?
- Tubby means stout, rotund.
- What is tubby in Bengali?
- Tubby in Bengali is স্থূলকায়, গোলাকার, টাবের মতো. See Tubby meaning in Bengali.
- What part of speech is tubby?
- Tubby can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce tubby?
- Tubby is pronounced /ˈtʌbi/.
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Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: tubby (page history and authors); tubby (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); tubby (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); tubby (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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