chubby

Meanings

Adjective

• Of a person: slightly overweight, somewhat fat, and hence plump, rounded, and soft.
• Of a body part: containing a moderate amount of fat.

Noun

• A chubby, plump person
• An overweight or obese gay man.
• A penile erection, especially when short and with a large circumference; a boner.

Origin

• Recorded since 1611, from chub, an assibilated form of cub and cob, from Middle English *cubbe (found only in derivative cubbel), from Old Norse kubbr, kumbr and/or Old Norse kumben ("stumpy"), equivalent to chub + -y. Cognate with dialectal Swedish kubbug ("fat, plump, chubby"). More at chub.