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chubby

UK/ˈt͡ʃʌbi/ US/ˈt͡ʃʰʌ̈bi/ fairly common slang

adjective

1.

euphemisms for slightly fat

  • “a generation ago...buxom actresses were popular” Robt.A.Hamilton
  • “chubby babies”
  • “pleasingly plump”
Synonyms
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Origin

Recorded since 1611, from chub (“short, thick fish species used as bait"; used metaphorically since 1558 for "lazy person”), an assibilated form of cub (“a lump, heap, mass”) and cob, from Middle English *cubbe (found only in derivative cubbel (“a block to which an animal is tethered”)), from Old Norse kubbr, kumbr (“block, stump, log”) and/or Old Norse kumben (“stumpy”), equivalent to chub + -y. Cognate with dialectal Swedish kubbug (“fat, plump, chubby”). More at chub.

Phrases

  • chubby bunny
  • chubby chaser

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