tubby
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Since 1978, cartoonist Jim Davis has explored the quotidian dramas of pet ownership via the daily travails of beleaguered Jon Arbuckle, his eager dog, Odie, and the titular tubby orange tabby, Garfield.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2024
Of all the things to say about Gaetz … tubby?
From Slate ● Apr. 18, 2024
In 2019, the state Department of Environmental Conservation evicted a tubby cat named Stormy from the general store in Fritz Creek where it had been living, as the feline’s presence violated food sanitation rules.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 17, 2023
Then they invite the public to vote online for their favorite tubby bear.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 26, 2022
Unfortunately, though, being the tubby daughter of Clover City’s most cherished beauty queen doesn’t win me much street cred.
From "Dumplin'" by Julie Murphy
The singers Mariah Carey, Janet Jackson and Jennifer Hudson are showing off newly slender bodies to entice tubbier folks to follow their example.
From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2011
Though the Chairman was tubbier and more paternal, he was just as embalmed by celebrity as Jackie Kennedy or Elvis Presley, Warhol's earlier subjects.
From Time Magazine Archive
The other was a smaller and tubbier man, pleasant to look upon, a man evidently who lived for and by good eating and drinking.
From Patsy by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
Slick and smear it over and leave it sounding sicklier and tubbier and more generally disgusting than ever.
From Mary Wollaston by Henry Kitchell Webster
Broad of beam, heavily sparred, with high freeboard and bluff, Dutchy bow, the Uncle Toby was the slowest, tubbiest, safest, and most fool-proof schooner David Grief possessed.
From A Son Of The Sun by Jack London
