Explore Tubby through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like dumpy or podgy. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Tubby meaning
- stout, rotund
- Resembling a tub
- sounding dull and without resonance or freedom of sound.
Using Tubby
- The main meaning on this page is: stout, rotund | Resembling a tub | sounding dull and without resonance or freedom of sound.
- Useful related words include: dumpy, podgy, pudgy, roly-poly.
- In the example corpus, tubby often appears in combinations such as: tubby and, to tubby.
Context around Tubby
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 5 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 10 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Tubby
- In this selection, "tubby" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, people, king, orange, love and single stand out and add context to how "tubby" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 45 and tubby single engine and by king tubby and other. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "tubby" sits close to words such as aanholt, aardwolf and abati, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with tubby
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Tubby and Barb have been in Alexandria since 1953. (9 words)
Tubby Smith has been a men’s college basketball coach every season since 1991-92. (15 words)
Tubby, a dog in the War Dogs program who served in Guam during World War II. (16 words)
Today when 6-3 combo guard Myreon Jones out of Birmingham pledged his commitment to Tubby and the Tigers becoming just the second recruit for Smith in the class of 2018. (31 words)
It was pioneered by King Tubby and other Jamaican sound artists, who used DJ-inspired ambient electronica, complete with all the inherent drop-outs, echo, equalization and psychedelic electronic effects. (30 words)
Two aircraft were: the four-engine B-24 Liberator (project AC-45) and tubby single-engine TBF Avenger torpedo bomber (project NA-188, photographed). (24 words)
Example sentences (10)
In fact it was built for her, and it has been occupied by Tubby and Blanch since they married on March 25, 1935.
Pointing at Trump, he said, “So proud of himself, like a tubby, orange brat knocking over sand castles at the beach.
She has opened for Nahko and Medicine for the People, Tubby Love and Amber Lily, Dustin Thomas, Paula Fuga and Pato Banton.
Tubby and Barb have been in Alexandria since 1953.
Two aircraft were: the four-engine B-24 Liberator (project AC-45) and tubby single-engine TBF Avenger torpedo bomber (project NA-188, photographed).
Tubby, a dog in the War Dogs program who served in Guam during World War II.
Today when 6-3 combo guard Myreon Jones out of Birmingham pledged his commitment to Tubby and the Tigers becoming just the second recruit for Smith in the class of 2018.
Tubby Smith has been a men’s college basketball coach every season since 1991-92.
Gibbs (2000), p. 68 He was nicknamed "Schwammerl" by his friends, which Gibbs describes as translating to "Tubby" or "Little Mushroom".
It was pioneered by King Tubby and other Jamaican sound artists, who used DJ-inspired ambient electronica, complete with all the inherent drop-outs, echo, equalization and psychedelic electronic effects.
Common combinations with tubby
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- tubby and 4×
- to tubby 2×