podgy

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After an hour their survey was done and the group's leader - a podgy, amiable man in his 60s, according to Capt Singh and others - asked the 28-man crew to gather in the mess.

From BBC • Aug. 31, 2021

As a 13-year-old, she writes, she felt "podgy and sad when I had to reach for a garment that was labelled with a number in the high teens".

From BBC • Jun. 5, 2018

THE opening of South Africa’s parliament is always a glitzy affair: podgy politicians strut before the cameras in local garb, ball-gowns and slick suits.

From Economist • Aug. 28, 2014

Appearance: Youthful – large but oddly podgy given that he seems to live exclusively on a diet of grasshoppers, earthworms and pine needles.

From The Guardian • Jul. 26, 2011

“I still can’t hear you,” Aarfy complained tolerantly, cupping his podgy hand behind the blanched corolla of his ear.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller