Retinal degeneration but not obesity is observed in null mutants of the tubby-like protein 1 gene.
It looks rather like a tubby electric convector fire.
We have to get away from the tubby holes of the nationalised industries, all squabbling with one another without reaching a co-ordinated programme in the national interest.
The same article described him as short and tubby.
The instance we witness involves a tubby older man and a cheap-looking motel room.
He was short, balding, and tubby, and read speeches monotonously, although surely on the personal level he must have had some magnetism.
I was the odd one, the tubby girl with glasses who had to go to violin lessons after school.
Ultimately the name is linked to words such as "pottolo" chubby, tubby.