spuddyadj.
Short and stumpy or plump; thick-set.
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squabby1754
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humpty-dumpty1785
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runty1807
squattish1809
roly-poly1818
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hoddy-doddy1824
spuddya1825
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stubby1831
podgy1832
fubsical1834
dumpty1847
fatling1847
stuggy1847
nuggety1856
cloddy1876
blocky1879
chumpy188.
cobby1883
squidgy1891
stockish1913
pyknic1925
humpisha1935
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830)
1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 283
1862 G. Borrow Wild Wales II. xiii. 142 The other was a short spuddy fellow, with a broad ugly face.
1862 G. Borrow Wild Wales II. xiii. 143 He was father of the spuddy military puppy.
1863 W. W. Story Roba di Roma II. ii. §29 [Jewesses] who fill..the wide chair on which they sit, while they rest their spuddy hands on their knees.
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