puppy fat

Adolescent weight phase

Puppy fat is the natural plumpness some children carry before adolescence, typically disappearing as they mature.

The term is more common in British English than American: She'll lose that puppy fat when she hits her growth spurt.

It's generally used reassuringly, suggesting the weight is temporary and normal rather than a lasting condition.

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round · belly · childhood · pudgy · chub · podge · outgrow · slim down · growth · puberty · awkward phase · babyhood · temporary · adolescence · maturation · infancy · bodyfat · development

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puppy fatslenderness

Narrow, slight quality

leanness · lean muscle · slimness · thinness · skinniness

body composition state

puppy fatmorbid obesity

Dangerously excessive body fat

middle-age spread

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