a. [f. CHUB + -Y.]

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  † 1.  Short and thick, dumpy like a chub. Obs.

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1611.  Cotgr., Raccourci … compacted; chubbie, short and strong.

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1884.  Cheshire Gloss. (E. D. S.), Chubby, thickset.

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  b.  Applied to ground: ? = lumpy, hummocky.

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1633.  T. Adams, Exp. 2 Peter ii. 14. Cushi runs apace, but through chubby and rough grounds.

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  2.  Round-faced; plump and well-rounded.

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1722.  Daily Post, 19 March. A fat, chubby boy, aged about 20 or thereabouts.

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1792.  Mary Wollstonecr., Rights Wom., iii. 105. Health and innocence smile on their chubby cheeks.

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1858.  Hawthorne, Fr. & It. Jrnls., I. 92. The very chubbiest and rosiest boy in the world.

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1859.  Gen. P. Thompson, Audi Alt., II. lxxxv. 51. A sow and her chubby pigs.

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  b.  transf.

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1836–9.  Dickens, Sk. Boz (1866), 173. A chubby street-door knocker, half-lion half-monkey.

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1882.  G. P. Lathrop, in Harper’s Mag., LXIV. 645/2. With borders of chubby shade trees and shrubbery.

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  3.  Comb., as chubby-faced, -headed, adjs.

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1826.  Miss Mitford, Village, Ser. II. (1863), 346. The chubby-faced Pickle.

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1884.  Cheshire Gloss. (E. D. S.), Chubby-headed, having a short, broad head like a bull.

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