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pudgy

[puhj-ee] / ˈpʌdʒ i /


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The slightly pudgy version who arrived in Los Angeles last year was already a superstar.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 11, 2025

Yet the pudgy former late-night sidekick is beguiling viewers on the 34th season of “Dancing with the Stars.”

From Salon • Nov. 4, 2025

Kissinger was pudgy and messy but incongruously acquired a reputation as a ladies’ man in the staid Nixon administration.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 29, 2023

It took off a decade ago, when Chinese internet users likened Xi to a pudgy Pooh and President Barack Obama to a lanky Tigger.

From Washington Post • Apr. 11, 2023

I scooped up a girl gnome with pigtails and a pudgy nose.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff




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