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pudgy

[puhj-ee] / ˈpʌdʒ i /


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Others tried their hands at a bottle ring toss to win crypto-themed plushies of pudgy penguins or bitcoin monkeys.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 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

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

Pugsley’s pudgy shape is distorted further with wobbly stripes in a hand-knit sweater.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2023

Mrs. Shannon is pudgy, wears lavender body lotion every single day, and I think she must be from the South because she talks with a real strong drawl.

From "Out of My Mind" by Sharon M. Draper

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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