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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

"Fabio looks a bit chubby to me," responded Sutton.

From BBC ● May 7, 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

“We identified a bit with the animal, which is also chubby like us,” Lizarraga said when asked by a Mexican radio station about the origin of the name.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 16, 2026

She takes his small hand in hers, a chubby star against her broad palm.

From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed

“Modeling was performing, but I had braces and noticed I was chubbier than everybody else, creating new anxieties. To be 11, 12, and 13 just sucked.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026

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

From Slate ● May 27, 2026

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

A somewhat addicting habit/hobby that started in his early, chubbier days as a Mariner has now left few parts of his typically exposed skin without some sort of permanent marking, meaningful or otherwise.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 15, 2018

And his brother is chubbier and called Marmeluc, which is a ridiculous name if you ask me.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz

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

Pressed against her knee stood the dirtiest and chubbiest four-year-old child on the borders of Brevoort Lake—perhaps the dirtiest on the north shore of Michigan.

From The Cursed Patois From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899 by Mary Hartwell Catherwood




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