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ˈfussock, fuzzock
Also 7 fussocks.
[Cf. fuss n.1; also fuss, fuzz n.1, fuzz-ball.]
1. A fat, unwieldy woman. dial. or slang.
a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew s.v., A Fat Fussocks, a Flusom, Fat, Strapping Woman. c1746J. Collier (Tim Bobbin) View Lanc. Dial. Wks. (1862) 55 This broddling Fussock lookt feaw os Tunor [a dog] when id done. 1868Waugh Sneck Bant ii. 40 ‘Nay,’ cried Billy; ‘thae'rt noan beawn to run off thi bargain becose o' this fuzzock makin' her din, arto?’
2. Sc. A fluffy mass (of cotton).
1882G. Macdonald Castle Warlock xxiv. (1883) 153 A fussock o cotton-'oo' rowed roon a bit o' stick.
Hence † ˈfussock v. intr. Obs., to roll about in an unwieldy way. Implied in † ˈfussocking ppl. a. ? Obs.
1782C. A. Burney in Mad. D'Arblay's Early Diary (1889) II. 297 Mrs. Percy is a vulgar, fussocking, proud woman; but very civil to us. 1847–78Halliwell, Fussocking, large and fat. |