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chubby

[chuhb-ee] / ˈtʃʌb i /


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It still has Bob’s Big Boy, the last restaurant of a once-large chain known for its chubby mascot, and Milt & Edie’s, a quirky pink-awninged 24-hour tailor and dry cleaner dating to the 1980s.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 7, 2026

Eala wins 'for all the girls with ruffled socks and chubby cheeks'

From BBC Jul. 5, 2026

In early scenes, he has a small curved line denoting a chubby chin, which changes over time to straight lines on each cheek, narrowing his face when he is old and infirm.

From MarketWatch Mar. 16, 2026

Think gingerbread men, only soft, chubby, and less fearful.

From Salon Feb. 5, 2026

Mr. Hodge had called out Sarah Puchini’s name—the blond girl was standing over by Anthony Solbers, a chubby boy with pimples.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Helena thinks capybaras are “really cute,” Nicoleti said, “and the chubbier the capybara, the more she likes them.”

From Slate May 27, 2026

“Most of the time, people want their stuffed animal a little chubbier than it was, because stuffing compresses over time, and that’s part of how they get flat,” Karper said.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 8, 2023

They’re so intent on nourishing their chicks that the fledglings grow larger and chubbier than their parents by the time of the winter migration south.

From Seattle Times Nov. 12, 2022

Photo by Thomas Ricker / The Verge The Elecjet Apollo Ultra is also chubbier than my reference battery despite holding the same number of electrons.

From The Verge Nov. 10, 2021

Her face is chubbier than I remember, her belly bigger, her hips wider.

From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau

That little dude sucks it right out of you like the world’s chubbiest and least stealthy vampire.

From Slate May 4, 2012

But, like hiring Hell's Angels to work security, relying on the continent's chubbiest rodents to put your landscape in order is not always a good idea.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the tiny Kentish village of Barham, the proud members of the pig war club informed her that their chubbiest, pinkest piglet was named Franklin.

From Time Magazine Archive

She had two of the world’s rosiest, chubbiest cheeks, which no one could keep from touching.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung

In about an hour he came back, bringing a half-drowned woman and just the nicest, chubbiest, little black-eyed girl baby that you ever saw in your life.

From Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks A Picture of New England Home Life by Charles Felton Pidgin




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