pudgy

The pudgy animals known for their relaxed appearance and calm demeanor gained popularity during the postpandemic period of short, serotonin-inducing videos.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026

Tom Brandis is a rumpled, pudgy wreck, an ex-priest who no longer believes in God and can’t absolve his son of a sin that shattered their family.

From Salon ● Oct. 6, 2025

Feeling the weight of loneliness, Dog, a pudgy canine living in a kinetic and chaotic 1980s New York, purchases a robot friend from a late-night infomercial.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2024

A kiddie cartoon about a pudgy protagonist voiced by an especially excitable Jack Black?

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 7, 2024

Mrs. Shannon is pudgy, wears lavender body lotion every single day, and I think she must be from the South because she talks with a real strong drawl.

From "Out of My Mind" by Sharon M. Draper

I’ll be a little paler and a little pudgier.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2020

In his second term, a visibly pudgier Garcia oversaw explosive economic growth.

From Reuters ● Apr. 17, 2019

But the devotional words today go to a cuddlier, pudgier lover of show tunes who speaks not in the cadences of Upper Manhattan but of Greater London.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 13, 2016

Maybe longer, pudgier and rolled up with rice, protein and vegetables? You know, kind of like a burrito?

From Washington Post ● Mar. 4, 2016

They rode the elevator up to Citra’s apartment with a pudgy woman with a pudgier pug, who was positively terrified.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

"This one," she said, holding up the pudgiest bundle, "because this is the china cat, and I want Joel to have that."

From Five Little Peppers Abroad by Margaret Sidney