a. TUB sb. + -ISH1.] Somewhat tubby; resembling a tub.

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1565.  Golding, Ovid’s Met., IV. (1593), 91. Of tubbish timbrels … a hoarse and jarring sound.

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1785.  Wolcott (P. Pindar), Odes Roy. Acad., iv. 11. Men whose heads are rather tubbish, Or, drum-like, better form’d for sound than sense.

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1836–7.  Dickens, Sk. Boz, Charac., vii. He was a short, round, large-faced, tubbish sort of man.

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