[f. TUBBY + -NESS.] Tubby quality or condition.
1873. Ipswich Jrnl., 28 June, 8/1. Mr. Colman’s is a beautiful bull, level and large framed, with a nice spring in the ribs, yet not that tubbiness of appearance which over-feeding in youth occasionally gives to show cattle.
1881. Daily News, 29 Dec., 6/4. There are 60 fishing smacks belonging to the bay of St. Baptist. Stoutly built they are, and somewhat inclined to tubbiness, but well-fitted for the heavy chopping Channel seas they have to encounter.
1906. H. G. Wells, Days of Comet (1907), 130. Its long skirts accentuated the tubbiness of his body, the shortness of his legs.
1910. Sat. Rev., 18 June, 785/2. Arpeggio passages … opulent and satisfying without any suspicion of tubbiness.
