tubby
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 12
- Words With Friends
- 14
- Letters
- 5
/ˈtʌbi/
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/ˈtʌbi/ · /ˈstʊbi/
Definition of tubby
4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
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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.”
“The clerk vanished, to be replaced a minute later by a tubby Indian with exhausted, visionary eyes.”
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adj
-
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.”
“The clerk vanished, to be replaced a minute later by a tubby Indian with exhausted, visionary eyes.”
- Resembling a tub
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sounding dull and without resonance or freedom of sound.
“a tubby violin”
noun
- (derogatory, often, slang)An overweight person.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From tub + -y. False cognate with chubby, even though they are often interchangeable.
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