I wanted to sully the hedgehog's pudsy, fuddlesome reputation and discover that the females were somehow harlots and the males were skulduggerous peddlers of filth.2014, Jules Howard, “The Greatest Story Never Told” (chapter 12), in Sex on Earth: A Celebration of Animal Reproduction, New York City: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 215:
pudsy
noun
Etymology From pud (“pudding”) + -sy.
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Dated, Endearing, No plural A nickname for a chubby or pudgy person, especially a baby.
Pixie cried, "Food values my father's foot! All she knows about food, Mrs Fry, is how to feed her own fat face!" Brownie the little echo trilled, "That's why she's such a pudsey!"1961, Xavier Herbert, Soldiers' Women, Melbourne: Angus & Robertson, page 16: