fustilugs Obs. exc. dial.
(ˈfʌstɪlʌgz)
[? f. fusty a. + lug in the sense of something heavy or slow.]
A person, esp. a woman, of gross or corpulent habit; a fat, frowzy woman.
| 1607 R. C. tr. Estienne's World of Wonders Pref. 10 The country swains contenting themselues though they haue not the fairest, take the woodden-fac'd wenches and the ill-fauourd-foule-fustilugs for a small summe. 1621 Burton Anat. Mel. iii. ii. iv. i. (1651) 519 Every lover admires his mistress, though she be..a vast virago, or..a fat fustylugs. 1639 tr. Junius' Sin Stigmat. xv. 39 You may dayly see such fustilugs walking in the streets, like so many Tunnes, each moving upon two pottle pots. 1746 Exmoor Scolding 118 (E.D.S.) Ya gurt Fustilugs! 1778 Ibid. Gloss., Fusty-lugs,—spoken of a big-boned Person,—a Great foul Creature. 1867 W. F. Rock Jim an' Nell lxii. (E.D.S. No. 76) ‘Nell isn't a gurt fustilugs O' cart-hoss heft, an' hulking dugs.’ |