CHUBBY (chubbier, chubbiest)

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Irregular inflected forms: chubbier    , chubbiest   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does chubby mean? 

• CHUBBY (adjective)
  The adjective CHUBBY has 1 sense:

1. sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure

  Familiarity information: CHUBBY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHUBBY (adjective)

Comparative: chubbier   
Superlative: chubbiest   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure

Synonyms:

chubby; embonpoint; plump

Context example:

pleasingly plump

Similar:

fat (having an (over)abundance of flesh)

Derivation:

chubbiness (the property of having a plump and round body)

 Context examples 

The Prince burst out against the Commons with an energy of hatred that one would scarce expect from that chubby, good-humoured face.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Quadlings themselves, who were short and fat and looked chubby and good-natured, were dressed all in red, which showed bright against the green grass and the yellowing grain.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

I was chubby myself, and ought to know.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A rosy, chubby, sunshiny little soul was Daisy, who found her way to everybody's heart, and nestled there.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Aylward, with a fishing lass on either arm, was vowing constancy alternately to her on the right and her on the left, while big John towered in the rear with a little chubby maiden enthroned upon his great shoulder, her soft white arm curled round his shining headpiece.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"There's no need for me to say it, for everyone can see that I'm far happier than I deserve," added Jo, glancing from her good husband to her chubby children, tumbling on the grass beside her.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The old man sat in front to drive, and the two young people sat behind him, and whenever he spoke to them leaned forward, the one on one side of his chubby face and the other on the other, and made a great deal of him.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

So poor Meg sang and rocked, told stories and tried every sleep-prevoking wile she could devise, but all in vain, the big eyes wouldn't shut, and long after Daisy had gone to byelow, like the chubby little bunch of good nature she was, naughty Demi lay staring at the light, with the most discouragingly wide-awake expression of countenance.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I am confident that he couldn't resist a chubby boy, especially; that there was a fascination in such a subject, which made him restless in his mind, until he had scored and marked him for the day.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)