(of a person) fat. People say‘corpulent’to avoid saying‘fat.’ He is a short, somewhat corpulent, man.
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NAmE//ˈkɔrpyələns//
noun [uncountable]See corpulent in the Oxford Advanced Learner's DictionaryCheck pronunciation: corpulent