(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.
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.