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pudge

/pʌd͡ʒ/noun

pudge is a noun meaning “Something short and fat” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-U-D-G-E, and it appears about once in every 6 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of pudge is pudges.

What does pudge mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Something short and fat.

  2. 2

    Excess body fat.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce pudge?

  • /pʌd͡ʒ/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-pudge.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of pudge

  • pudges plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is pudge?

Pudge appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 72,332nd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).