plumpish

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In his teens he was a plumpish fraternity president and cheerleader who played in a country and western trio.

From New York Times • Sep. 13, 2012

She was six, a bossy little person, slightly on the plumpish side, with carefully braided and brightly beaded cornrows hanging down across her eyes.

From Salon • Aug. 26, 2012

Ralph Pucci, a maker of abstracts, produced a plumpish mannequin a while back, but sold hardly any.

From New York Times • May 5, 2010

Like most farm wives, talkative, plumpish Amy Kelsey has chores aplenty.

From Time Magazine Archive

A small, plumpish woman of forty, with peaked nose, black eyes, and but two upper teeth, confronted me.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861 by Various