chubby

adjective
🔊/ˈtʃʌbi/
🔊/ˈtʃʌbi/
(comparative chubbier, superlative chubbiest)
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  1. slightly fat in a way that people usually find attractive胖乎乎的;圆胖的
    • chubby cheeks/fingers/hands胖乎乎的脸颊/手指/手
    • She was eleven years old and pretty in a chubby sort of way.她十一岁,胖乎乎的,很可爱。
    • worried that he was getting rather chubby担心他变得越来越胖
    • Aah, look at his chubby little hands!啊,看看他胖乎乎的小手!
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    Oxford Collocations DictionaryChubby is used with these nouns:
    • cheek
    • finger
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    Word Originearly 17th cent. (in the sense ‘short and thickset, like a chub’): from chub.