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pudgy

[puhj-ee] / ˈpʌdʒ i /


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The pudgy animals known for their relaxed appearance and calm demeanor gained popularity during the postpandemic period of short, serotonin-inducing videos.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 16, 2026

Yet the pudgy former late-night sidekick is beguiling viewers on the 34th season of “Dancing with the Stars.”

From Salon Nov. 4, 2025

They added Deandre Ayton for length, Jake LaRavia for defense, Marcus Smart for toughness, and a new body for Doncic, a formerly pudgy and breathless kid who has acknowledged his very adult transformation.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 29, 2025

Kissinger was pudgy and messy but incongruously acquired a reputation as a ladies’ man in the staid Nixon administration.

From Seattle Times Nov. 29, 2023

Eight or nine other people were scattered around the summit, including one youngish, rather pudgy man on his own in a very new and expensive-looking windcheater.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

I’ll be a little paler and a little pudgier.

From Los Angeles Times May 7, 2020

In his second term, a visibly pudgier Garcia oversaw explosive economic growth.

From Reuters Apr. 17, 2019

But the devotional words today go to a cuddlier, pudgier lover of show tunes who speaks not in the cadences of Upper Manhattan but of Greater London.

From Washington Post Jun. 13, 2016

Maybe longer, pudgier and rolled up with rice, protein and vegetables? You know, kind of like a burrito?

From Washington Post Mar. 4, 2016

They rode the elevator up to Citra’s apartment with a pudgy woman with a pudgier pug, who was positively terrified.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

"This one," she said, holding up the pudgiest bundle, "because this is the china cat, and I want Joel to have that."

From Five Little Peppers Abroad by Margaret Sidney




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