What's the difference between chubby and hubby?

Chubby


Definition:

  • (a.) Like a chub; plump, short, and thick.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He points to the whippet-like Andy Bond at Asda, the lean Sir Terry Leahy at Tesco and the "little bit chubby" Justin King at Sainsbury's as proof of his theory.
  • (2) His defence was, and remains, that negro simply means black in Spanish, and is acceptable in his culture – like calling somebody chubby or skinny.
  • (3) In March, Paul Nuttalls called for Johnny and the Baptists to be banned from any venue receiving public subsidy – basically everywhere – for doing a funny song about the Ukips, even though the same places host Jim Davidson, Roy Chubby Brown, John Gaunt and Top Gear; the same week Farage defended the booking of an old-school non-PC comic at the Ukips’ conference saying: “Let people tell their jokes!
  • (4) Chubby, bright-eyed babies were passed around and distant relatives traced out how they were connected (“I think the brother of your auntie’s husband was married to my cousin’s daughter”).
  • (5) • Kim Dotcom: 'I'm not a pirate, I'm an innovator' • Crispin Hunt slams Kim Dotcom as 'chubby Che Guevara' • Beware, copyright holders: the Kim Dotcom copyright saga isn't over Megaupload may be defunct, but Dotcom has since launched a successor cloud storage service called Mega, before moving on to work on other projects including digital music service Baboom, recording and releasing his own albums, and launching a political party in New Zealand, where he is fighting extradition to the US to face the criminal charges.
  • (6) It was meant to be a quick knock-off of a novelty dance fad single, in the vein of Chubby Checker's It's Pony Time or Dee Dee Sharp's Do the Bird, and on one level, a quick knock-off was clearly what it was: Reed couldn't even be bothered to write his own riff, pinching it from the Crystals' 1963 smash Then He Kissed Me .
  • (7) Owner Steve Woodman, grandson of Chubby, took me down the river on his boat to see where they come from.
  • (8) American Bandstand provided the first national television appearances for the likes of Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly and Chubby Checker.
  • (9) Muhammad looked at Chubby and asked, “Did you drive all the way from Philadelphia just to see me?” Chubby said yes.
  • (10) That must be horrible – but that feeling can be short-term and the pros (snuggling up to your warm, chubby baby) surely outweigh that particular con?
  • (11) Taking this to heart, we should be less blind and keep a cool head while kissing the cheeks of the chubby blue guy.” In South Korea, where a ban on Japanese popular culture has been lifted in increments since the late 1990s, disputes over territory and the legacy of the second world war show little sign of easing.
  • (12) He was a snub-nosed little creature, with clenched fists and wide eyes, a child who, a decade on, has kept his chubby-cheeked, infant looks.
  • (13) Perhaps in the early 60s, when music seemed to gush out of him in an unceasing torrent, songs so dazzling in their perfection that the Beach Boys became enshrined in the public imagination as the living embodiment of the perfect Californian youth they sang about, despite a lot of physical evidence to the contrary – the almost unnecessarily handsome Dennis Wilson was hidden behind the drums, which left audiences looking at his two chubby brothers Carl and Brian, his balding cousin Mike Love and the diminutive, jug-eared guitarist Al Jardine.
  • (14) The majority of black South African men prefer chubby women,” said the 34-year-old scientist.
  • (15) The profile patterns of the lower third face in the esthetic group become well-developed and chubby convexity which looks relatively straight.
  • (16) BACK ABOARD THE JOURNEY SOUTH AND ROY CHUBBY BROWN ALTERNATIVE ENGLAND WORLD CUP SONG BANDWAGON.
  • (17) Since his debut 45 years ago Doraemon has become one of Asia’s best-loved animated characters – but in the eyes of some Chinese media the chubby, earless cat with the gaping smile is now on a mission to corrupt the nation’s youth.
  • (18) Roy "Chubby" Brown is far filthier than Manning ever was.
  • (19) When I tour council-funded venues I am often surprised that they host people such as Roy Chubby Brown, Jim Davidson, hosts of dubious mediums, and Jon "Gaunty" Gaunt, who no doubt offend the sensibilities of arts administrators who learned their craft at polytechnics during the PC era of the 80s and 90s.
  • (20) For instance, M&S find they do very well with fake fur, despite this not being a 'traditional' look – for next season there are fake shearlings, chubbies, sleek glossy furs, and Shrimpy-esque dip-dyes – while simultaneously doing excellent business with practical fabrics such as the Thinsulate modern thermal.

Hubby


Definition:

  • (a.) Full of hubs or protuberances; as, a road that has been frozen while muddy is hubby.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) She looks delighted, but hubby Brian May is looking proper grumpy in the audience.
  • (2) It's the kind of thing that makes a better news story – vice girl hubby in nanny baby snatch drama – than it does plot line, spread over 10 months like muck on a field.
  • (3) Look at it, right where hubby's left breast pocket would be.
  • (4) I'm panicking as my mortgage is due to be paid and my hubby's wage is in tomorrow [29 June].
  • (5) Absolutely the vital organising body for London’s whole underground movement – the UFO and Middle Earth – production credits on the Floyd’s first single Arnold Layne, Incredible String Band svengali, the Fairports, of course … the list is endless and positively oozing with a kind of dead-eye sense of good taste and (a hackneyed word, sure, but most relevant here, I’d say) integrity easing up even to contemporary projects like that marvellous Hendrix movie and production credits for Maria (and currently ex-hubby Paul Butterfield’s Better Days luminary, Geoff) Muldaur.
  • (6) The Labour party, which has by far the best record on the representation of women, nevertheless hid them away: Harriet Harman, now its second female "acting" leader, was barely seen; nor Yvette Cooper – pressed by Jeremy Paxman about the content of her "pillow talk" with husband Ed Balls and now asked repeatedly if her hubby is standing for leader; nor Margaret Hodge, who made the best speech of election night on defeating the BNP in Barking.
  • (7) It renamed its Chubby Hubby flavour to Hubby Hubby and people loved it.
  • (8) The fact that the federal Coalition managed to talk about the goods and services tax, the Medicare co-payment, industrial relations changes, knighting the Queen’s hubby and its own leadership woes in just over three weeks when most of them were on leave really beggars belief.
  • (9) When the wife would hear her hubby, she would take his coat and shoes, feed him."
  • (10) If she has personal strife of any kind, or frets about her "work-life balance", or struggles to pick up her hubby's dry-cleaning in between extraditing terrorists, you wouldn't know.
  • (11) It’s just self-contrived because her hubby didn’t get a nomination.” Hubert had previously called out Pinkett Smith for losing perspective.

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