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portly

adjective
🔊/ˈpɔːtli/
🔊/ˈpɔːrtli/
 [usually before noun]
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  1. (especially of an older man尤指年长男子) rather fat发福的；发胖的 synonym stout
    • The waiter was a portly middle-aged man.服务员是一个矮胖的中年男人。
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    Oxford Collocations DictionaryPortly is used with these nouns:
    • man
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    Word Originlate 15th cent.: from port in the sense ‘bearing’ + -ly.