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zaftig
ZAWF-tig
adjective
full-figured
1990John UpdikeRabbit at RestWebb does like them zaftig.1995Eric Van LustbaderSecond SkinOne year the zaftig look was in among models, the next year the waif was all the rage.2000Robert J. SawyerCalculating GodI think Marilyn is lovely, but, well, she's quite curvy-zaftig, even.2000James MorrowAuspicious Eggs (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, October 2000)Valerie Gallogher, his nephews' zaftig kindergarten teacher, seems on the verge of tears.

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