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chubby

[chuhb-ee] / ˈtʃʌb i /


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It still has Bob’s Big Boy, the last restaurant of a once-large chain known for its chubby mascot, and Milt & Edie’s, a quirky pink-awninged 24-hour tailor and dry cleaner dating to the 1980s.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026

Eala wins 'for all the girls with ruffled socks and chubby cheeks'

From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026

In early scenes, he has a small curved line denoting a chubby chin, which changes over time to straight lines on each cheek, narrowing his face when he is old and infirm.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 16, 2026

Think gingerbread men, only soft, chubby, and less fearful.

From Salon ● Feb. 5, 2026

In Tía Laura’s arms, Fifi begins bawling, reaching her chubby little hands for Chucha, who stands at the door with her arms crossed.

From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez

“Modeling was performing, but I had braces and noticed I was chubbier than everybody else, creating new anxieties. To be 11, 12, and 13 just sucked.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026

“Most of the time, people want their stuffed animal a little chubbier than it was, because stuffing compresses over time, and that’s part of how they get flat,” Karper said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2023

They’re so intent on nourishing their chicks that the fledglings grow larger and chubbier than their parents by the time of the winter migration south.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 12, 2022

Photo by Thomas Ricker / The Verge The Elecjet Apollo Ultra is also chubbier than my reference battery despite holding the same number of electrons.

From The Verge ● Nov. 10, 2021

She had grown chubbier, and she didn’t like the outdoors, maybe because it might muss her beehive hairdo.

From "Kira-Kira" by Cynthia Kadohata

That little dude sucks it right out of you like the world’s chubbiest and least stealthy vampire.

From Slate ● May 4, 2012

But, like hiring Hell's Angels to work security, relying on the continent's chubbiest rodents to put your landscape in order is not always a good idea.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the tiny Kentish village of Barham, the proud members of the pig war club informed her that their chubbiest, pinkest piglet was named Franklin.

From Time Magazine Archive

She had two of the world’s rosiest, chubbiest cheeks, which no one could keep from touching.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung

It could not have been otherwise, since the boy was the youngest of seven children and the smallest, chubbiest, and fattest of them all.

From Roumanian Fairy Tales by J. M. Percival


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