chubby

Meaning

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) An overweight or obese gay man.
3. (slang) A penile erection, especially when short and with a large circumference; a boner.
4. A type of thickly-padded fur jacket.

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

well-fed

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.