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  • adjective superlative form of tubby: most tubby.

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Examples

  • Broad of beam, heavily sparred, with high freeboard and bluff, Dutchy bow, the Uncle Toby was the slowest, tubbiest, safest, and most fool-proof schooner David Grief possessed.

    A LITTLE ACCOUNTWITH SWITHIN HALL 2010

  • Sri Lanka's captain Arjuna Ranatunga, the tubbiest streetfighter of them all, holds the 1996 World Cup trophy aloft.

    The speech that set free Sri Lanka cricket and glued a troubled nation | David Hopps 2011

  • He did not live to see the tubbiest streetfighter of them all, Arjuna Ranatunga, lift the World Cup two years later, the event that pronounced Sri Lanka had truly arrived.

    The speech that set free Sri Lanka cricket and glued a troubled nation | David Hopps 2011

  • Grief is on Uncle Toby, his "slowest, tubbiest, safest, and most fool-proof schooner" with a broken chronometer and the skipper down with fever at the opening of "A Little Account with Swithin Hall" (Saturday Evening Post, September 2, 1911).

    “Have you lived? What have you got to show for it?” 2008

  • Because animal rights group PETA has named its annual 'World's Sexiest Vegetarians' list – a little like trying to find the world's tubbiest anorexic or the world's most interesting envelope – and the results are so depressing that we're planning to visit the winners' houses and frisbee lamb chops into their mouths just to get them disqualified.

    Carrie Underwood Gets Engaged To Some Bloke 2007

  • Broad of beam, heavily sparred, with high freeboard and bluff, Dutchy bow, the Uncle Toby was the slowest, tubbiest, safest, and most fool-proof schooner David Grief possessed.

    A Little Account With Swithin Hall 1912

  • Broad of beam, heavily sparred, with high freeboard and bluff, Dutchy bow, the _Uncle Toby_ was the slowest, tubbiest, safest, and most fool-proof schooner David Grief possessed.

    A Son Of The Sun Jack London 1896

  • Ohio man accused of having sex with dogs, horse sparks demand for harsher bestiality law Fat cats half off: Animal shelter offers steep discount for its tubbiest felines

    NY Daily News MICHAEL SHERIDAN 2011

  • The Mahaveera Day 2008 speech by Velupillai Prabhakaran, one of the world's most notorious and certainly tubbiest terrorist leaders, demonstrates that there can be no solution to Sri Lanka's conflict so long as he remains alive and active, and has not been brought to justice.

    Kottu 2008

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