pubble
English
Etymology
Perhaps from bubble.
Adjective
pubble (comparative more pubble, superlative most pubble)
- (Northern England or obsolete) puffed out; pudgy; fat
- 1567, Thomas Drant, Horace his arte of Poetrie, pistles, and Satyrs, Englished and to the Earle of Ormounte
- Thou shalt me fynde fat and wel fed,
As pubble as may be.
- Thou shalt me fynde fat and wel fed,
- 1567, Thomas Drant, Horace his arte of Poetrie, pistles, and Satyrs, Englished and to the Earle of Ormounte
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for pubble in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)