pudgy
adjective
short and fat or thick.
pudginess
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a word derived from
pudgy.
Example Sentences
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She looked at him for a moment longer — at his short beard, sharp features, all the pudginess gone — and then went back to watching television.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 22, 2018
Combined with a slight pudginess that suggests physical vulnerability, an eczematic redness to his face, and a thistle of thin blond hair, he looks as if he has survived some kind of fallout.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 15, 2017
So long as they include disclaimers, anyone can slap up free websites offering treatments to help with baldness and pudginess, the flu and cancer.
From Economist ● May 19, 2016
A tendency to pudginess which he had had since he was twelve years old disappeared.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 14, 2013
The childhood pudginess has vanished from his face.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
