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  • 121overweight — n 1. overbalance, excess baggage, excess, Commerce. overage. 2. obesity, fatness, excess weight, Euph. weight problem, overheaviness, overponderousness; heaviness, heftiness, weightiness, ponderousness, ponderosity; rotundity, portliness,… …

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  • 122plump — I adj 1. fleshy, fattish, fat, portly, stout, round, rotund; well rounded, filled out, well fed, rounded, ample, Scot. fodgel; moonish, chubby, tubby, podgy, pudgy; paunchy, Inf. chunky, dumpy, squat, squatty, pursy; round faced, moon faced, roly …

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  • 123portly — adj fat, corpulent, obese, plump, fatty; stout, stocky, well built, large, ample, Scot. fodgel; strapping, burly, brawny, beefy, meaty, thickset; paunchy, potbellied, Obs. gorbellied, well fed; squat, pursy, dumpy, lumpish; Inf. chunky, chubby,… …

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  • 124puffy — adj 1. gusty, blasty, blustery, squally; windy, breezy, airy. 2. short winded, panting, blowing, out of breath, breathless, winded, blown, exhausted, gasping, wheezing. 3. inflated, Obs. sufflated, swollen, distended, turgid, tumid, bulging,… …

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  • 125short-winded — adj 1. breathless, out of breath, short of breath, pursy, winded; panting, huffing, puffing, gasping, heaving; wheezing, (usu of horses) broken winded, Pathol. dyspneal. 2. concise, succinct, brief, to the point, short and sweet; direct, pointed …

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  • 126squab — adj 1. fat, obese, corpulent, overweight, portly, pursy, Scot. fodgel; dumpy, stumpy, stubby, squat, squatty, squabby; chunky, lumpy, lumpish. 2. chubby, tubby, pudgy Chiefly Brit. podgy, plump; round, rounded out, rotund; fleshy, filled out,… …

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  • 127squat — v 1. crouch, sit on one s haunches or heels, hunker, hunker down, bend, bend down, stoop, hunch, hunch over. 2. cringe, cower, shrink, lie low, crawl, creep. 3. settle, take up residence, set up housekeeping, establish oneself, put down roots;… …

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  • 128stout — adj 1. thick, thickset, heavy, heavy set, stocky; fat, obese, corpulent, overweight, portly, pursy, Scot. fodgel; fleshy, filled out, well fed, bouncing; ample, substantial, full, big, large; bulky, hulky, hulking. 2. beefy, brawny, burly, husky …

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