chubby

Adj

1. Of a person: slightly overweight, somewhat fat, and hence plump, rounded, and soft.
2. Of a body part: containing a moderate amount of fat.

Noun

1. A chubby, plump person.
2. (slang) A chubby, plump person.
3. (slang) A penile erection, especially when short and with a large circumference; a boner.
4. A type of thickly-padded fur jacket.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈt͡ʃʌbi/

Etymology

Cognate with Swedish: kubbug

In summary

Recorded since 1611, from chub (“short, thick fish species used as bait"; used metaphorically since 1558 for "lazy person”), an assibilated form of cub (“a lump, heap, mass”) and cob, from Middle English *cubbe (found only in derivative cubbel (“a block to which an animal is tethered”)), from Old Norse kubbr, kumbr (“block, stump, log”) and/or Old Norse kumben (“stumpy”), equivalent to chub + -y. Cognate with dialectal Swedish kubbug (“fat, plump, chubby”). More at chub.

Synonyms

plump

fat

corpulent

stout

fleshy

pudgy

obese

tubby

portly

rotund

overweight

embonpoint

puffy

round

stocky

dumpy

podgy

round-faced

spherical

buxom

sappy

squatty

very fat

zaftig

short and fat

orbiculate

plim

pinwheel-shaped

chanky

big

beef to the hoof

bulky

circular

crummy

fatty

full

global

large

meaty

moonfaced

paunchy

plumb

pulpy

roly poly

rounded

roundish

snug

squab

squat

stumpy

Translations

potelé

dodu

regordete

rundlich

mollig

gorducho

rechonchudo

mollig

roliço

gordo

gordito

joufflu

replet

grossolano

pulchny