chubby, a.
(ˈtʃʌbɪ)
[f. chub + -y.]
† 1. Short and thick, dumpy like a chub. Obs.
| 1611 Cotgr., Raccourci..compacted; chubbie, short and strong. 1884 Cheshire Gloss. (E.D.S.), Chubby, thickset. |
b. Applied to ground: ? = lumpy, hummocky.
| 1633 T. Adams Exp. 2 Peter ii. 14 Cushi runs apace, but through chubby and rough grounds. |
2. Round-faced; plump and well-rounded.
| 1722 Daily Post 19 Mar., A fat, chubby boy, aged about 20 or thereabouts. 1792 M. Wollstonecraft Rights Wom. iii. 105 Health and innocence smile on their chubby cheeks. 1858 Hawthorne Fr. & It. Jrnls. I. 92 The very chubbiest and rosiest boy in the world. 1859 Gen. P. Thompson Audi Alt. II. lxxxv. 51 A sow and her chubby pigs. |
b. transf.
| 1836–9 Dickens Sk. Boz (1866) 173 A chubby street-door knocker, half-lion half-monkey. 1882 Harper's Mag. LXIV. 645 With borders of chubby shade trees and shrubbery. |
3. Comb., as chubby-faced, chubby-headed adjs.
| 1826 Miss Mitford Village Ser. ii. (1863) 346 The chubby-faced Pickle. 1884 Cheshire Gloss. (E.D.S.), Chubby-headed, having a short, broad head like a bull. |