/ˈtʌbi/, /ˈstʊbi/
OriginFrom tub + -y. False cognate with chubby, even though they are often interchangeable.
- stout, rotund
“Grace bent to her oars with a springing verve and force which made the tubby little boat draw towards the shore, the whispering lapse of water gliding under its sides all the while.”
“The clerk vanished, to be replaced a minute later by a tubby Indian with exhausted, visionary eyes.”
- Resembling a tub
- sounding dull and without resonance or freedom of sound.
Formstubbier(comparative) · tubbiest(superlative)