What's the difference between doughy and tubby?

Doughy


Definition:

  • (a.) Like dough; soft and heavy; pasty; crude; flabby and pale; as, a doughy complexion.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Report of a patient who discharged water and doughy stools since birth.
  • (2) He was sloppy and careless, never more so than when Cunningham, a blown-up cruiserweight more than 3st lighter and years past his best, detonated a right hook on his exposed chin that sent his doughy form crashing to the canvas in the second round.
  • (3) Doughy consistency of the mass and quadriceps atrophy are other features.
  • (4) Multiple irregular ulcers, doughy infiltration of the bowel wall, multiple nodules and diffuse polyposis of the colon are classic patterns of secondary lymphoma of the gut.
  • (5) Of course, you need good bread, not the remains of a doughy, sliced loaf – those are only good for the ducks.
  • (6) Patient 2 developed 30 min after a similar dive painful, doughy swellings and redness over the upper ventral half of the thorax and both upper arms.
  • (7) Erythrodermic mastocytosis is a rare variant of diffuse cutaneous mastocytosis in which the skin becomes red, thickened, and lichenified and has a doughy consistency with multiple small papules on its surface, giving a leathery appearance to the skin.
  • (8) Abdominal pain and tenderness were the commonest clinical findings; "doughy abdomen" and a mass in right iliac fossa were uncommon.
  • (9) At the time of cementing of the femoral component, the medullary canal had been plugged with a bolus of bone cement and then filled with doughy Simplex-P methylmethacrylate in a retrograde fashion using a cement gun.
  • (10) Especially once the nation has watched video footage of a five-year-old Boris with soft doughy thighs negotiating a rubber boat down a river.
  • (11) Fermentation produces a white doughy paste – around 22,000 tonnes of it every year.
  • (12) In the fixated prosthetic group (eight rabbits), a 1.5-cm3 doughy bolus of polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) was used to cement the prosthesis firmly.
  • (13) If Canadians are God's doughty people – and some of them these days his doughy people too – they were stoically out to enjoy themselves.
  • (14) The conformation of wheat gluten proteins in their functional hydrated solid state (doughy state) has been studied for the first time using attenuated total reflection infrared spectroscopy.
  • (15) The skin felt doughy and swolen on palpation but there was no oedematous pitting.
  • (16) The crisp-shelled burger buns are slightly doughy and absorbent and mould themselves around the contents.
  • (17) Group 1 received a bolus doughy Simplex polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) cement injected into the proximal tibia through a drill hole.
  • (18) Group I received a bolus of doughy Simplex polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) cement injected into the proximal tibia through a drill hole.
  • (19) One pair of siblings had subcutaneous tissue of doughy consistency and another pair had bladder hypertrophy.
  • (20) Of course, the tour is punctuated by stop-offs at two of Muia’s favourite pizzerias for a doughy, cheesy, refuel.

Tubby


Definition:

  • (a.) Resembling a tub; specifically sounding dull and without resonance, like a tub; wanting elasticity or freedom of sound; as, a tubby violin.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Duke’s ancestor Hugh Lupus – the king’s head huntsman or grand veneur , a tubby man nicknamed gros veneur , from which derived the family surname – came across with William the Conqueror and was granted a chunk of Cheshire to protect the region from the Welsh.
  • (2) But marketing material won’t be enough to give you a proper understanding, warns Eleanor Tubby, graduate recruitment officer at Bird and Bird.
  • (3) The predicted location for a human homolog of tubby is HSA 11p15.
  • (4) Tubby Reddy, chief executive of the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic committee, told the Associated Press: “As he stands right now, he’s free [to compete].” Pistorius potentially faces up to 15 years in prison after being convicted of the South African equivalent of manslaughter, but could receive a suspended sentence and avoid jail altogether when he returns to court on 13 October.
  • (5) Several recessively inherited forms of obesity exist including the obese mouse, the diabetes mouse, fatty rat, the fat mouse, tubby mouse and the corpulent rat.
  • (6) His campaign speeches are broadcast from chilly, overcast London to the Karachi faithful, many of them women who hold portraits of their tubby, moustachioed leader.
  • (7) During his years with Real Madrid, an increasingly tubby but still marvellously effective Puskas struck up a famous partnership with the Argentine centre-forward, the domineering Alfredo Di Stefano.
  • (8) Marcus Christenson 75: Ezequiel Lavezzi, Paris St-Germain, Argentina; age 27, forward Despite all scientific regimes available to the modern footballer, thank goodness there is still room in the game for a player nicknamed El Pocho, or Tubby.
  • (9) Best warning Brazil: "Out-sized" Goias striker "Tubby" Walter , warning Flamengo he would "lie down and roll over them" in the Brazilian Cup.
  • (10) Fly through the future North of the Gherkin, a tower nicknamed the Can of Ham for its odd tubby form is currently being built.
  • (11) Beyond that, no one outside of CBS Television City has a clue what to expect when the “tubby kid”, as David Letterman called him , starts beaming into US living rooms.
  • (12) It has been described as a "tubby spaniel" by its admirers and as a "destructive nocturnal rat" by its critics.
  • (13) A tubby, barefoot man with broken teeth and wild eyes opened the door.
  • (14) This report describes the development of obesity syndromes in mice caused by two autosomal recessive mutations, fat (fat), located on chromosome 8, and tubby (tub), located on chromosome 7.

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