tubby

From tub +‎ -y. False cognate with chubby, even though they are often interchangeable.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʌbi/

  Rhymes: -ʌbi

tubby (comparative tubbier, superlative tubbiest)

1. stout, rotund
   • 1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:

     The clerk vanished, to be replaced a minute later by a tubby Indian with exhausted, visionary eyes.

2. Resembling a tub; sounding dull and without resonance or freedom of sound.

   a tubby violin

• tubbiness

tubby (plural tubbies)

1. (derogatory, slang, often used teasingly) An overweight person.

• Teletubby