How did the word tubby come about to mean chubby?
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"tubby (adj.) "shaped like a tub, corpulent," 1835, from tub. The noun meaning "a fat person" is attested from 1891." http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=tubby "chubby 1611, from chub (q.v.) the short, thick fish used as bait, used metaphorically for "lazy person" since 1558; perhaps influenced by O.N. kumba "log," kumben "stumpy."" These are the etymological definitions of the two words. They have always been used for similar purposes, as you can see. "Chubby" has a slightly different meaning, focusing more on the connotation of laziness, instead of obesity, as in "tubby". I think both words have been used for more or less the same thing since many years. For the differences between (King) Tubby and (Popa) Chubby see here: http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=O7CbVugPWWM http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=3_c86x-Xmcg
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