(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.