chubby

Meanings

Plural: chubbies

Adjective Satellite

sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure
- "a chubby child"

Adj

Of a person: slightly overweight, somewhat fat, and hence plump, rounded, and soft.
Of a body part: containing a moderate amount of fat.

Noun

A chubby, plump person.
A chubby, plump person.
An overweight or obese gay man.
A penile erection, especially when short and with a large circumference; a boner.
A type of thickly-padded fur jacket.

Origin / Etymology

Recorded since 1611, from chub (“short, thick fish species used as bait"; used metaphorically since 1558 for "lazy person”), an assibilated form of cub (“a lump, heap, mass”) and cob, from Middle English *cubbe (found only in derivative cubbel (“a block to which an animal is tethered”)), from Old Norse kubbr, kumbr (“block, stump, log”) and/or Old Norse kumben (“stumpy”), equivalent to chub + -y. Cognate with dialectal Swedish kubbug (“fat, plump, chubby”). More at chub.

Synonyms

chunky, embonpoint, plump, podgy, tubby

Scrabble Score: 18

chubby is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
chubby is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
chubby is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 20

chubby is a valid Words With Friends word