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tubby

[tuhb-ee] / ˈtʌb i /


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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

“A little big boy dance. A little tubby tummy thing.”

From Washington Post ● Aug. 20, 2017

His card key bounced against his tubby belly.

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray

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

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

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

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


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