Meaning of pudge | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Something short and fat.
   countable, uncountable
2. Excess body fat.
   countable, uncountable

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Examples

“2002, extract from Christine Lincoln, Sap Rising, in Marita Golden, E. Lynn Harris (editors), Gumbo: An Anthology of African American Writing, Random House (Broadway Books), page 676, The smell⟳ of her skin and hair after I have⟳ given her a bath, me nibbling at the layers of pudge on her legs and arms, around her neck—I drown⟳ in the scent of all that innocence.”

“Their faces are long and graceful and missing the pudge of the others.”

“He is high-booted (over rather skinny legs), with a tiny bit of a paunch showing, an intimation of genital endowment, and a sort⟳ of nice half smile⟳ (a tidge of pudge in the cheeks and jowls), his left hand leaning against and rather caressing a very bold phallic cannon's spout.”

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