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English
Etymology
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.
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Adjective
chubby (comparative chubbier, superlative chubbiest)
- Of a person: slightly overweight, somewhat fat, and hence plump, rounded, and soft.
- Synonyms: chunky, plump, podgy, tubby
Obviously the chubby child was eating too much.
2010, Marsha Hubler, The Long Ride Home, Zonderkidz, →ISBN, page 97:Slowly Skye wrapped her arms around the chubby woman's frame and rested her head on Rita's chest drenched with perspiration.
- Of a body part: containing a moderate amount of fat.
- Synonyms: chunky, plump, podgy
It’s quite normal for babies to have chubby cheeks.
1867, Ivan Sergheïevitch Turgenef [i.e., Ivan Turgenev], chapter I, in Eugene Schuyler, transl., Fathers and Sons , New York, N.Y.: Leypoldt and Holt, →OCLC, page 1:The servant to whom he put this question was a young fellow with chubby cheeks, small, dull eyes, and a round chin, covered with a colorless down.
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of a person, somewhat fat
- Armenian: թմբլիկ (hy) (tʻmblik)
- Azerbaijani: çağ (az), dolğun, ətli-canlı, toppuş, koppuş
- Bulgarian: пухкав (bg) (puhkav)
- Catalan: grassonet (ca), grosset
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 豐滿/丰满 (zh) (fēngmǎn)
- Dutch: mollig (nl), volslank (nl)
- Finnish: pullea (fi), pulska (fi)
- French: potelé (fr) m, dodu (fr) m
- Galician: repoludo (gl)
- German: mollig (de)
- Hebrew: שְׁמַנְמַן (sh'manmán)
- Italian: grassoccio (it), cicciuto, paffutello
- Japanese: ぽってり (potteri), ぽちゃぽちゃ (pochapocha)
- Macedonian: на́леан (nálean), ту́нтурест (túnturest), по́лничок (pólničok), дебе́личок (debéličok), ши́шкав (šíškav), по́лникав (pólnikav)
- Maori: māretireti, pukunati, makune
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: lubben m or f
- Persian: تپل (fa) (topol), کپل (fa) (kopol), لنبه (fa) (lonbe)
- Plautdietsch: druglich
- Polish: pulchny (pl), pyzaty (pl)
- Portuguese: rechonchudo (pt) m, gorducho m, roliço (pt) m
- Romanian: plinuț (ro), grăsuț (ro), durduliu (ro) (regional), rotunjor (ro)
- Russian: пу́хленький (ru) (púxlenʹkij), пу́хлый (ru) (púxlyj), круглоли́цый (ru) (kruglolícyj), полнощёкий (ru) (polnoščókij), упи́танный (ru) (upítannyj), то́лстый (ru) (tólstyj), пуза́тый (ru) (puzátyj), корена́стый (ru) (korenástyj), то́лстенький (ru) (tólstenʹkij)
- Spanish: gordito, rechoncho (es), regordete (colloquial), rellenito (colloquial), metido en carnes
- Swedish: knubbig (sv), mullig (sv)
- Thai: เจ้าเนื้อ
- Ukrainian: круглоли́ций m (kruhlolýcyj), круглови́дий m (kruhlovýdyj), повнощо́кий m (povnoščókyj), повнови́дий m (povnovýdyj)
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of a body part, containing a moderate amount of fat
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Noun
chubby (plural chubbies)
- A chubby, plump person
1949, R. Duffy Lewis, Dorothy Stote, How to build an infant's, girls' and teens' wear business: a manual for retailers and prospective shop owners:The chubby is the girl who cannot be fitted in the regular 7 to 14 size range because she is too stout. Sizes for these girls are 7*4 to 141/^, and are specially styled and designed to give them better proportions.
2007, Jackie Guerra, Under Construction: How I've Gained and Lost Millions of Dollars and Hundreds of Pounds, New American Library, →ISBN:The chubby is especially taken for granted: "Hey, can you watch my purse while I dance?"
- (LGBT slang) An overweight or obese gay man.
- (slang) A penile erection, especially when short and with a large circumference; a boner.
- Hey, Lucius, I just wanted to share a piece of personal information with you. I've got a... a chubby right now because This is one of the most awesome experiences of my life!—Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
- A type of thickly-padded fur jacket.
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