podgy, a.
(ˈpɒdʒɪ)
[f. podge n. + -y: a parallel form, somewhat later in appearance, of pudgy.]
Short, thick, and fat; squat.
| 1846 Thackeray Cornhill to Cairo iii. 37, I wish I had had a shake of that trembling, podgy hand. 1856 Mayhew Rhine 143 A shaggy, podgy, black pony. 1858 J. R. Green Lett. (1901) 26 The slow oily stream, beneath whose willows lurked..podgy perch. 1861–2 Vac. Tour. 24 A priest on the podgy side of forty. 1898 Allbutt's Syst. Med. V. 832 Massage is very useful in emaciated or podgy people. |
Hence ˈpodgily adv., in a podgy way or degree.
| 1893 ‘J. S. Winter’ Aunt Johnnie I. 2 She was not only fat, but she was podgily fat. |
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Add: ˈpodginess n., the quality or condition of being podgy.
| 1924 Glasgow Herald 3 Jan. 6 The average Briton of to-day retains the lithe carriage..of youth at an age when his Early-Victorian ancestor had long subsided into whiskered podginess. 1979 R. Cox Auction x. 253 [His] well-cut suit failed to disguise the podginess of his figure. |