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fubsy, a.|ˈfʌbzɪ|
Also 8 fubsey, 9 fubzy.
[f. fubs + -y1.]
Of the figure, limbs, etc.: Fat and squat.
1780F. Burney Diary Apr., Her daughter, a fubsy, good-humoured..merry old maid. 1826J. Wilson Noct. Ambr. Wks. 1855 I. 261 Fat and fubzy fellows of colleges. 1829Dk. Buckhm. Priv. Diary III. vii. 159 A fat, fubsy foot, as unsentimental as could be. 1879Sala Paris herself again (1880) II. iv. 57 She was a squat, fubsy little old woman. 1895Spectator 23 Nov. 723 To hold and confess the opposite opinion is to announce oneself a fubsy Philistine.
transf.1837Marryat Dog-fiend viii, He was..cosily..seated upon the..little fubsy sofa. |