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Meanings of podgy in English
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Examples for "pudgy"
Examples for "pudgy"
1
Then her pudgy body shuddered, and she let out a great cry.
2
Read on to learn what makes these cute, pudgy critters so special.
3
A pudgy hand grabbed the edge of the table and he stabilized.
4
He waved a pudgy hand in a vague circle, indicating his visage.
5
In profile, a little pudgy, he'd have made a good Santa Claus.
1
Thus tubby-like proteins may be generally involved in transciliary trafficking of GPCRs.
2
We directly examined a role for tubby in ciliary trafficking in vivo.
3
A tubby guy operating the boom microphone squawked into his Nextel walkie-talkie.
4
A shortish, tubby man whose figure added ten years to his age.
5
She shouldn't care if I get a little tubby in the middle!
1
Such was the highest type; the commoner was squat, dumpy, and heavy.
2
A dumpy, motherly somebody in a seal-skin coat and a preposterous bonnet.
3
And this lady with the dumpy dress and short blue curls .
4
I like restaurants that are a little bit dumpy, without much decor.
5
She was middle-aged and dumpy, and smelled of sour sweat and cigarettes.
1
Jam roly-poly arrived on the scene in 1845, courtesy of Eliza Acton.
2
For such things had he known since he was a roly-poly puppy.
3
The roly-poly couple behind him parted to let him stumble past.
4
Fanny has made the roly-poly pudding,' says he; the chops are my part.
5
They both heard a curious roly-poly noise under the attic floor.
Usage of podgy in English
1
On the podgy form of Lackaday's predecessor it produced its comic effect.
2
It wouldn't suit a plump and podgy person like myself at all.
3
A shrewd, kindly, yet subtly derisive expression lit up Kutúzov's podgy face.
4
In aspect, he was the exact opposite to the podgy Governor.
5
And I would say Monis was a bit shorter and podgy.
6
She had disgusting hands, fat and podgy and covered with rings.
7
Shakespeare was probably of middle height, or below it, and podgy.
8
He bent forward, resting his fat podgy hand on her knee.
9
You're a podgy man, you see, and Mrs. Greenow doesn't like podgy men.
10
His podgy left hand went to a golden charm bracelet around his right wrist.
11
Some fat, middle-aged clerk comes puffing into view: his ridiculous little figure very podgy.
12
They could drink themselves into podgy decrepitude like Judy Garland.
13
He wasn't as fat as Ben, but he was podgy.
14
His podgy figure was almost ludicrous in her eyes.
15
In his indignation, my podgy scribe has forgotten this.
16
He caressed his coal-black beard with a podgy hand on which a large diamond sparkled.
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