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発音

• IPA: /ˈtʌbi/
• (Northern England, Ireland) IPA: /ˈstʊbi/

  韻: -ʌbi

形容詞

tubby (comparative tubbier, superlative tubbiest)

1. stout, rotund
   • 1895, S. R. Crockett, A Cry Across the Black Water:

     Grace bent to her oars with a springing verve and force which made the tubby little boat draw towards the shore, the whispering lapse of water gliding under its sides all the while.

   • 1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:

     The clerk vanished, to be replaced a minute later by a tubby Indian with exhausted, visionary eyes.

2. Resembling a tub
3. sounding dull and without resonance or freedom of sound.

   a tubby violin

派生語

名詞

tubby (plural tubbies)

1. (derogatory, slang, often used teasingly) An overweight person.

派生語

• Teletubby