What's the difference between chubby and podgy?

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.

Podgy


Definition:

  • (a.) Fat and short; pudgy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He has long been acknowledged by le Carré as part of the inspiration for his genius spymaster Smiley, whom he describes in 1974's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy as "small, podgy and at best middle-aged, he was by appearance one of London's meek who do not inherit the earth".
  • (2) His podgy finger pointed at the forbidding building.
  • (3) The only known photographs of him dated back years - until one released yesterday showed a bearded, podgy and bespectacled middle-aged man wearing a mottled camouflage uniform and military-style forage cap.
  • (4) If you’re going to send a bomb into a crowd of civilians, of course you’re going to have a success.” Meanwhile, in Berlin, Hitler was experiencing his own unreality, with his only ally in the world his podgy, insecure personal physician, Dr Morell.
  • (5) By the weekend, Psy, the podgy antihero behind the Gangnam Style phenomenon , is expected to make history by becoming the first Korean to reach No 1 in the UK charts, having already risen to the top of the iTunes download charts here and in the US.

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