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Definition of Tubbiness
1. Noun. The property of having a plump and round body.
Generic synonyms: Embonpoint, Plumpness, Roundness
Derivative terms: Chubby, Pudgy, Roly-poly, Tubby
Definition of Tubbiness
1. Noun. The state of being tubby; chubbiness. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tubbiness
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Tubbiness
Literary usage of Tubbiness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Behind the Scenes at the Front by George Adam (1915)
"... few regiments landed at the Channel ports was rapturously joyful Over the
Channel there floated the golden tubbiness of one of the British dirigibles, ..."
2. With Three Armies on and Behind the Western Front by Arthur Stanley Riggs (1918)
"... a man inside his official skin, a stalwart guardian spirit for all his tubbiness
and red nose, an inchoate hero instead of a mere political job- ster. ..."
3. The Horse-world of London by William John Gordon (1893)
"... me legs and feet,' said the Midland superintendent to us, ' and I will look
after the rest,'—broad and strong, with nothing of tubbiness in the barrel ..."
4. The Journal of the British Homoeopathic Society by British Homoeopathic Society (1898)
"... with enlarged glands about the neck and elsewhere, and with enlarged tonsils,
and often a laxness of the abdominal walls amounting to tubbiness. ..."
5. English Mechanic and World of Science: With which are Incorporated "The (1892)
"In this case one of the symptoms appears to be "tubbiness," which may arise from
various causes—eg, a too thick G string, the back or the belly, or both, ..."
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