"pudge" meaning in English

See pudge in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /pʌd͡ʒ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-pudge.wav [Southern-England] Forms: pudges [plural]
Rhymes: -ʌdʒ Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} pudge (countable and uncountable, plural pudges)
  1. Something short and fat. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-pudge-en-noun-K5OzyVjQ
  2. Excess body fat. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Obesity
    Sense id: en-pudge-en-noun-c~YgWUq~ Disambiguation of Obesity: 29 71 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 39 61 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 39 61
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: pudgy, podge

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for pudge meaning in English (2.7kB)

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          "text": "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,\nThe 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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