zaftig
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The 2021 animated movie adaptation makes her more glamorous, but she’s still a zaftig giantess too heavy for Catwoman to hang onto as she’s dangling off the side of a building.
From Salon • Oct. 27, 2024
Especially commendable is Zamit, who in addition to Mrs. Darling and the housekeeper, plays a Tinkerbell too zaftig to fly, among other roles.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2023
Now a Guggenheim fellow, Machado was once conditioned to accept that zaftig women are undeserving of worship.
From Washington Post • Nov. 4, 2019
In 2007, fat pigeons swarmed into Liverpool, England, pecking and pooping and plodding about, and so upset the locals that the City Council brought in 10 robotic peregrine falcons to scare off the zaftig varmints.
From Slate • Apr. 18, 2012
Grandpa Izzy says that Margaret is zaftig, which is Yiddish for pleasingly plump.
From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg
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