pudgy

[ puhj-ee ]

/ ˈpʌdʒ i /

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adjective, pudg·i·er, pudg·i·est.

short and fat or thick: an infant's pudgy fingers.

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Also especially British, podgy.

Origin of pudgy

First recorded in 1830–40; origin uncertain

OTHER WORDS FROM pudgy

pudg·i·ly, adverbpudg·i·ness, noun

Words nearby pudgy

pudendal artery, pudendal canal, pudendal nerve, pudendum, pudge, pudgy, pudic, Pudovkin, Pudsey, pudu, Puducherry

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How to use pudgy in a sentence

He is a pudgy, bespectacled, homburg-wearing cuckold of a Sherlock in those fish-grey postwar years of 1970s England.
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The young, professional players indulged the pudgy kingpin as he kicked his ball around in the dirt.
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He was a pudgy young boy and eventually fell in with a bad crowd.
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Some hung-over mornings he looks into the mirror and finds a pudgy Nosferatu looking back at him.
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The Briton, holding the documents in a pudgy hand, looked at the swift-gestured director with portentous solemnity.
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I cant let you increase your indebtedness, and his pudgy hand lifted the basket and put it on the shelf behind him.
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"Paul did it," accused Dodo, waving a pudgy, ink-stained little fist in the direction of her brother.
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The latter snapped pudgy fingers at the querulous Mr. Mitchell by virtue of his powerful partner.
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The man stopped, uttered an absurd little grunt, and thrust pudgy arms skyward.
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British Dictionary definitions for pudgy

pudgy

/ (ˈpʌdʒɪ) /

adjective pudgier or pudgiest

a variant spelling (esp US) of podgy

Derived forms of pudgy

pudgily, adverbpudginess, noun

Word Origin for pudgy

C19: of uncertain origin; compare earlier pudsy plump, perhaps from Scottish pud stomach, plump child

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

pudgy

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