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pudgy

[puhj-ee] / ˈpʌdʒ i /


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The slightly pudgy version who arrived in Los Angeles last year was already a superstar.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 11, 2025

Tom Brandis is a rumpled, pudgy wreck, an ex-priest who no longer believes in God and can’t absolve his son of a sin that shattered their family.

From Salon • Oct. 6, 2025

Harbaugh remembered him as a pudgy, 5-foot-7 eighth grader.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 31, 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