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say it: CHUHB-ee
chubby is an adjective meaning "sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure". It is pronounced /ˈtʃʌbi/ — CHUHB-ee. It carries one recorded sense.
sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure
“a chubby child”
“pleasingly plump”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for chubby come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.