Pudge

//pʌd͡ʒ// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Something short and fat. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    a short fat person wordnet
  3. 3
    Excess body fat. countable, uncountable

    "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."

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clydesdalefat personfive-by-fivehamplanetheffalumplandwhale

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"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."

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