podgy
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This particular hippo's miniature frame and podgy proportions have inspired a fervent following online.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2024
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
"You can't look good as a podgy mod," Elms says.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2012
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
In the clothes he wore now he looked podgier than ever, and his round spectacles gave his round face the look of a prim cherub.
From The Trembling of a Leaf Little Stories of the South Sea Islands by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham
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