pudgy

[puhj-ee]

adjective

pudgier, pudgiest 

1. short and fat or thick.

   an infant's pudgy fingers.

pudgy

/ ˈpʌdʒɪ /

adjective

1. a variant spelling (esp US) of podgy

Other Word Forms

• pudginess noun
• pudgily adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of pudgy¹

First recorded in 1830–40; origin uncertain

Word History and Origins

Origin of pudgy¹

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

Example Sentences

The slightly pudgy version who arrived in Los Angeles last year was already a superstar.

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Yet the pudgy former late-night sidekick is beguiling viewers on the 34th season of “Dancing with the Stars.”

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Feeling the weight of loneliness, Dog, a pudgy canine living in a kinetic and chaotic 1980s New York, purchases a robot friend from a late-night infomercial.

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A kiddie cartoon about a pudgy protagonist voiced by an especially excitable Jack Black?

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Kissinger was pudgy and messy but incongruously acquired a reputation as a ladies’ man in the staid Nixon administration.

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Related Words

• chubby 
• plump