fubsy

adj

fubsy

adj

UK /ˈfʌb.sɪ/

Etymology fubs (variant of fub) + -y

1

UK short and stout; low and wide

A fubsy, good-humoured, laughing, silly […] old maid.1780, Madame d'Arblay, diary entry - May 1780:
“Pray,” said Doctor Waldron, addressing Mrs. Green, “who is that little fubsy lady, with scarce a morsel of neck, and all covered with ribbands, pursued by that long ghost of a man in the Spanish dress?”1833, anonymous author, Frank Orby, page 11:

2 more examples

[…] seated upon the widow's little fubsy sofa […]1837, Frederick Marryat, Snarleyyow, or, the Dog Fiend:
He knew she was nothing but a fubsy pig-pink whorelet and would elbow her face away when she attempted to kiss him after he had finished […]1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle:

Derived terms: fubsily, fubsiness

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