单词 | fustilugs |
释义 | fustilugsn. Obsolete exc. dialect. A person, esp. a woman, of gross or corpulent habit; a fat, frowzy woman. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > broad shape or physique > [noun] > fat or plump shape or physique > person having > woman roil1533 boss1578 blowze1594 fustilarian1600 fustilugs1607 tub-woman1660 fuss1670 fussock1699 bundlea1825 1607 R. C. tr. H. Estienne World of Wonders Pref. 10 The country swains contenting themselues though they haue not the fairest, take the woodden-fac'd wenches, and the ill-fauourd-foule-fustilugs for a small summe. 1638 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 5) iii. ii. iii. 515 Every Lover admires his mistris, though shee be..a vast virago, or..a fat fustilugs. 1639 R. Younge Sinne Stigmatizd xv. 39 You may dayly see such fustilugs walking in the streets, like so many Tunnes, each moving upon two pottle pots. 1746 Exmoor Scolding (ed. 3) i. 8 Ya gurt Fustilugs! 1746 ‘Devoniensis’ Let. in Gentleman's Mag. Aug. 406/2 Fusty-lugs, a big-boned person. 1867 W. F. Rock Jim an' Nell lxii. 19 Nell isn't a gurt fustilugs O' cart-hoss heft, an' hulking dugs. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < |
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