corpulent
adjective /ˈkɔːpjələnt/
/ˈkɔːrpjələnt/
(formal)- (of a person
) fat. People say ‘corpulent’ to avoid saying ‘fat’.人 发福的,福态的(委婉说法,与 fat 同义) - He is a short, somewhat corpulent, man.
他是个矮个子,有点肥胖的男人。
词源late Middle English: from Latin corpulentus, from corpus ‘body’. - He is a short, somewhat corpulent, man.