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Tubby — can refer to: * King Tubby, a dub musician * Tubby Hall, a jazz drummer * A. A. Englander, a cinematographer * a character in the Little Lulu comic strip * one of the Bash Street Pups, a comic strip * William Tubby, the Brooklyn architect * Tubby … Wikipedia
Tubby — Tub by, a. Resembling a tub; specifically sounding dull and without resonance, like a tub; wanting elasticity or freedom of sound; as, a tubby violin. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
tubby — (adj.) shaped like a tub, corpulent, 1835, from TUB (Cf. tub) + Y (Cf. y) (2). The noun meaning a fat person is attested from 1891 … Etymology dictionary
tubby — [adj] fat beefy*, big, brawny, broad, bulging, bulky, burly, chubby*, chunky*, dumpy, elephantine, fleshy, gargantuan, gross, heavy, heavyset*, hefty, husky, large, obese, oversize, overweight, plump, portly, potbellied, pudgy*, roly poly*, stout … New thesaurus
tubby — ► ADJECTIVE (tubbier, tubbiest) informal ▪ (of a person) short and rather fat. DERIVATIVES tubbiness noun … English terms dictionary
tubby — [tub′ē] adj. tubbier, tubbiest 1. shaped like a tub 2. fat and short tubbiness n … English World dictionary
Tubby — King Tubby (* in , ; † ), mit bürgerlichem Namen Osbourne Ruddock, war ein Toningenieur mit eigenem Studio. Er beeinflusste maßgeblich die Entwicklung des . Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Leben 2 Diskografie 2.1 … Deutsch Wikipedia
Tubby's — Infobox Company name = Tubby s type = private foundation = 1968 founder = Richard Paganes location city = Clinton Charter Township, Michigan location country = USA locations = area served = Michigan (primarily metropolitan Detroit) key people =… … Wikipedia
tubby — UK [ˈtʌbɪ] / US adjective Word forms tubby : adjective tubby comparative tubbier superlative tubbiest informal slightly fat … English dictionary
tubby — adjective (tubbier; est) Date: circa 1807 1. sounding dull and without proper resonance or freedom of sound < a tubby violin > 2. pudgy, fat … New Collegiate Dictionary
