like a tub; short; fat, stout
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Tubby Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(a.)
Resembling a tub; specifically sounding dull and without resonance, like a tub; wanting elasticity or freedom of sound; as, a tubby violin.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutResembling a tub; specifically sounding dull and without resonance, like a tub; wanting elasticity or freedom of sound; as, a tubby violin.
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.
tubby
adj : short and fat [syn: dumpy, podgy, pudgy]
Adjective
1. short and fat
(synonym) dumpy, podgy, pudgy
(similar) fat
Tubby Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Tubby can refer to:
- A. A. Englander, a cinematographer, nicknamed 'Tubby'
- King Tubby, a dub musician
- Mark Taylor (cricketer), Australian cricketer, nicknamed 'Tubby'
- Tubby or Tubbies or Teletubbies, a children's television program
- Trevor Allan, Australian rugby union and rugby league footballer, nicknamed 'Tubby'
- The canine fatality of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge disaster
- Tubby (Pillow Pal), a Pillow Pal hippopottamus made by Ty, Inc.
- Tubby Hall, a jazz drummer
- Tubby protein, a family of proteins with a characteristic tertiary structure implicated in obesity
- Tubby Smith, University of Minnesota Basketball Coach; former head coach of University of Kentucky
- Tubby's, a restaurant chain
- William Tubby, the Brooklyn architect
- a character in the Little Lulu comic strip
- one of the Bash Street Pups, a comic strip
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Tubby Definition from Entertainment & Music Dictionaries & Glossaries
A sound having low-frequency resonances, almost as if the sound were coming from inside a bathtub.
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