podgy
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This particular hippo's miniature frame and podgy proportions have inspired a fervent following online.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2024
As a 13-year-old, she writes, she felt "podgy and sad when I had to reach for a garment that was labelled with a number in the high teens".
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2018
THE opening of South Africa’s parliament is always a glitzy affair: podgy politicians strut before the cameras in local garb, ball-gowns and slick suits.
From Economist ● Aug. 28, 2014
Appearance: Youthful – large but oddly podgy given that he seems to live exclusively on a diet of grasshoppers, earthworms and pine needles.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 26, 2011
The man with the twisted face pointed and his closest companion, a podgy, pallid man, started forward, but a moment later they had relaxed into their previous state of inactivity, looking frustrated and disappointed.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
In the clothes he wore now he looked podgier than ever, and his round spectacles gave his round face the look of a prim cherub.
From The Trembling of a Leaf Little Stories of the South Sea Islands by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham
