fubsy
English
WOTD – 2 January 2009
Etymology
fubs (variant of fub) + -y
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈfʌb.sɪ/
Audio (UK) (file)
Adjective
fubsy (comparative fubsier, superlative fubsiest)
- (Britain) short and stout; low and wide
- 1780, Madame d'Arblay, diary entry - May 1780
- A fubsy, good-humoured, laughing, silly […] old maid.
- 1833, anonymous, Frank Orby, page 11:
- “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?”
- 1837, Frederick Marryat, Snarleyyow, or, the Dog Fiend
- […] seated upon the widow's little fubsy sofa […]
- 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
- 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 […]
- 1780, Madame d'Arblay, diary entry - May 1780
Translations
short and stout; low and wide
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