Chubby vs Stoutish - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between chubby and stoutish

is that chubby is of a person, slightly overweight, somewhat fat and hence soft while stoutish is reasonably stout, somewhat stout.

As a noun chubby

is a chubby, plump person.

chubby

English

Adjective

(er)

Of a person, slightly overweight, somewhat fat and hence soft.

Obviously the chubby child was eating too much.

Of a body part, containing a moderate amount of fat.

It's quite normal for healthy babies to have chubby cheeks.

Synonyms

* (person) chunky, plump, podgy, tubby * (part of the body) chunky, plump, podgy

Derived terms

* chubbily * chubbiness

Noun

(chubbies)

A chubby, plump person

An overweight or obese gay man.

(slang) An erection of the penis.

Hey, Lucius, I just wanted to share a piece of personal information with you. I've got a... a chubby right now because [starts creaming] This is one of the most awesome experiences of my life!—

Derived terms

* chub (plump person) * chubby chaser

stoutish

English

Adjective

(-)

reasonably stout, somewhat stout

*{{quote-book, year=1912, author=Margaret Burnham, title=The Girl Aviators' Motor Butterfly, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Descending to the office to buy some postcards, the boys found, lounging about the desk, a stoutish man with a rather dissipated face, puffy under the eyes and heavy about the jaws. }}

*{{quote-book, year=1911, author=H. G. Wells, title=The Country of the Blind, And Other Stories, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=I joined all my fishing-lines together with stems of seaweed and things, and made a stoutish string, perhaps twelve yards in length or more, and I fastened two lumps of coral rock to the ends of this. }}

*{{quote-book, year=1883, author=, title=Treasure Island, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=In the meantime the captain, whom I had observed to be wonderfully swollen about the chest and pockets, had turned out a great many various stores--the British colours, a Bible, a coil of stoutish rope, pen, ink, the log-book, and pounds of tobacco. }}