a. TUB sb. + -ISH1.] Somewhat tubby; resembling a tub.
1565. Golding, Ovids Met., IV. (1593), 91. Of tubbish timbrels a hoarse and jarring sound.
1785. Wolcott (P. Pindar), Odes Roy. Acad., iv. 11. Men whose heads are rather tubbish, Or, drum-like, better formd for sound than sense.
18367. Dickens, Sk. Boz, Charac., vii. He was a short, round, large-faced, tubbish sort of man.