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单词 fussock
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fussockn.

Forms: Also 1600s fussocks, 1800s fuzzock.
Etymology: Compare fuss n.1; also fuss , fuzz n.1, fuzz-ball n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈfussock.
1. A fat, unwieldy woman. dialect or slang.
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the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > broad shape or physique > [noun] > fat or plump shape or physique > person having > woman
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1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew (at cited word) A Fat Fussocks, a Flusom, Fat, Strapping Woman.
?1746 ‘T. Bobbin’ View Lancs. Dial. 22 So I gen um hur; on fat Fussock lookt feaw when hood done.
1868 E. Waugh 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. Scottish. A fluffy mass (of cotton).
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1882 G. MacDonald Castle Warlock (1883) xxiv. 153 A fussock o cotton-'oo' rowed roon a bit o' stick.

Derivatives

ˈfussock v. Obsolete (intransitive) to roll about in an unwieldy way.
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1782 [see fussocking adj.].
ˈfussocking adj. Obsolete
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1782 C. A. Burney Jrnl. in F. Burney Early Diary (1889) II. 297 Mrs. Percy is a vulgar, fussocking, proud woman; but very civil to us.
1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Fussocking, large and fat.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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