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stuggy, a. dial.|ˈstʌgɪ|
[? Related to stug, stuck a.
Cf. ‘Stugged, healthy, strong’ (Mrs. M. Palmer's Devon Dial., 1839, Gloss.).]
Of a person: Stocky, thick-set, sturdy. Also transf.
1847Halliwell, Stuggy, thick and stout. Devon. 1864Blackmore Clara Vaughan lxxxiii. (1872) 368 To use a Devonshire word, the farmer was too ‘stuggy’. 1892P. H. Emerson Son of Fens viii. 74 She was stuggy and fat. 1945P. Woodruff Call Next Witness ii. 59 Quite as heavy a weight as his stuggy little brown mare was meant to carry. 1960L. Fielden Natural Bent ix. 250 Ships with high noses and short noses, ships with long lines and stuggy lines. |