a. ? Obs. [f. CHUB + -ED.]

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  1.  = CHUBBY 1, 2: ‘Big-headed like a chub’ (J.).

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1674.  Lond. Gaz., No. 852/4. A chubbid fellow, hard favored. Ibid. (1687), No. 2285/4. Lost … a brown Mare … a thick Neck, and a chubbed Head.

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1767.  Brooke, Fool of Qual., I. 22. Eldest son to a wealthy squire, a chubbed unlucky boy.

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  2.  Of or belonging to a chub (sense 2). Obs.

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1702.  C. Mather, Magn. Chr., VII. (1852), App. 632. This Chub found an opportunity, in a pretty chubbed manner, to kill a couple of principal sagamores.

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  Hence Chubbedness = next.

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1731–1800.  Bailey, Chubbedness, the having full cheeks.

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