Definition of "tubby" [tub•by]

• Short and fat. (adjective)
• Having a dull sound; lacking resonance. (adjective)

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• "By calling you a teletubby was she infering that you were looking a little 'tubby' or just plain weird"
• ""She's rather dim and kind of tubby - undereducated and undersexed - and she displays a distressing affinity for mom jeans and sweaters covered in puffy paint and appliquéd kittens.""
• "I've been thinking of something along similar lines - where men boys/guys/young males - whichever term suits best use terms such as tubby, d*ckhead as almost pet names in conversation with each other."