fussock
English
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfʌsək/
- Rhymes: -ʌsək
Noun
fussock (plural fussocks)
- (archaic) A fat woman.
- 1838, John P. Kennedy, chapter X, in Rob of the Bowl, volume I:
- "Ay, the mercer's wife—I shall come to her presently. Well, Peregrine, as you have often seen, is a shade or so jealous of that fussock, his wife, who looks, when she is tricked out in her new russet grogram cloak, more like a brown haycock in motion than a living woman."
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Hypernyms
- woman
- landwhale
Translations
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Further reading
- [Francis Grose] (1785), “Fussock”, in A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, London: […] S. Hooper, […], OCLC 1080177284: “a lazy fat woman”.