as in plump
having an excess of body fat
the short and pudgy toddler had transformed into a tall, strapping teenager
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Recent Examples of pudgy
But the pudgy screwball specialist with the funky delivery emerged as the team’s ace in 1981, going 13-7 with a 2.48 ERA in 25 starts and winning the NL Cy Young and Rookie of the Year awards, a performance that earned him a long leash in the postseason.
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Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2024
Fat Bear Week is a perennial attention-grabber for its pudgy Alaskan brown bears, but the frenzy is focused on a short time period.
—Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
In the dining room, artisanal, woven-straw dining chairs surround the handmade table, watched over by two monumental Fernando Botero paintings—a juicy still life of a sliced watermelon, which hung in his own Colombian home for many years; and a portrait of a pudgy girl.
—Hannah Martin, Architectural Digest, 17 July 2024
Flesh is the key visual subject of the doc, its elemental material, from the pudgy sweetness of a breastfeeding infant to the gleaming, sweating skin of the women’s bodies.
—Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Nov. 2023
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Mike Digiovanna, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2024
Fat Bear Week is a perennial attention-grabber for its pudgy Alaskan brown bears, but the frenzy is focused on a short time period.
—Amanda Kooser, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
In the dining room, artisanal, woven-straw dining chairs surround the handmade table, watched over by two monumental Fernando Botero paintings—a juicy still life of a sliced watermelon, which hung in his own Colombian home for many years; and a portrait of a pudgy girl.
—Hannah Martin, Architectural Digest, 17 July 2024
Flesh is the key visual subject of the doc, its elemental material, from the pudgy sweetness of a breastfeeding infant to the gleaming, sweating skin of the women’s bodies.
—Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Nov. 2023
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Some winners: Hyaluronic acid draws water into the skin to keep it plump and hydrated.Jessica Kasparian, SELF, 10 Jan. 2025
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The ultimate shrimp scampi offers perfectly plump shrimp in a garlicky, lemony, white wine sauce.Robin Miller, The Arizona Republic, 3 Jan. 2025
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Unlike carbohydrates and fat—the other two macronutrients—protein doesn’t come with the same kind of cultural stigma.Kari Sonde, TIME, 13 Jan. 2025
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With less water and more body fat than men, Whyte explains that alcohol becomes more concentrated in a woman’s system, leading to faster intoxication and prolonged exposure to its effects.Sandra Rose Salathe, Flow Space, 13 Jan. 2025
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By midnight, the wolf moon should glow bright and round overhead before disappearing at sunrise into the western horizon.Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2025
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In other first round playoff games, the Houston Texans play host to the surging Los Angeles Chargers on Saturday and the Denver Broncos will visit the Buffalo Bills on Sunday afternoon in the final AFC game.Jack Magruder, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
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All the children, made chubby by their coats and jackets, their hats and scarves, the pitch of their glee rising and falling like a siren.Brandon Taylor, The Atlantic, 4 Jan. 2025
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While chubby cats may look cute, obesity can shorten their life and expose them to elevated risks of cancer, diabetes mellitus, heart disease and hypertension, osteoarthritis and faster degeneration of affected joints, urinary bladder stones, and anesthetic complications.Maria Azzurra Volpe, Newsweek, 18 Dec. 2024
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“Pudgy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pudgy. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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