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Definition of Tubby
1. Adjective. Short and plump.
Similar to: Fat
Derivative terms: Dumpiness, Pudge, Pudginess, Rolypoliness, Tubbiness
Definition of Tubby
1. a. Resembling a tub; specifically sounding dull and without resonance, like a tub; wanting elasticity or freedom of sound; as, a tubby violin.
Definition of Tubby
1. Adjective. stout, rotund ¹
2. Noun. (context: pejorative slang) An overweight person. Term is commonly used to tease obese children and adults. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tubby
1. short and fat [adj -BIER, -BIEST]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tubby
Literary usage of Tubby
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ballads of Old New York by Arthur Guiterman (1920)
"tubby HOOK ABOUT two-thirds of a mile below Spuyten Duyvil, at the old settlement
of Inwood from where the Fort Lee ferry carries picnic-parties across the ..."
2. Reports of Cases Decided in the High Court of Chancery: By the Right Hon by James Lewis Knight Bruce, Great Britain Court of Chancery (1847)
"tubby v. tubby. 1 HE bill was filed by Jane tubby, the widow and administratrix
of Thomas tubby, against Sarah Ann tubby and Mary Jane tubby, infants, ..."
3. Irish Chancery Reports: Being a Series of Reports of Cases Argued and by Ireland High Court of Chancery, Ireland Rolls Court (1867)
"... (d) we have a decision by Mr. <—1-s ,' Justice Parke exactly the other way.
Rex v. tubby (e); Rex v. ..."
4. Reports of Cases Decided in the High Court of Chancery: With Notes and by Great Britain Court of Chancery (1853)
"tubby v. tubby. on production of the minutes of the Vice-Chancellor's order of
... tubby. [*136] The administrator ought not to be sole plaintiff in a bill ..."
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