fubsy, a.
(ˈfʌbzɪ)
Also 8 fubsey, 9 fubzy.
[f. fubs + -y1.]
Of the figure, limbs, etc.: Fat and squat.
| 1780 F. Burney Diary Apr., Her daughter, a fubsy, good-humoured..merry old maid. 1826 J. Wilson Noct. Ambr. Wks. 1855 I. 261 Fat and fubzy fellows of colleges. 1829 Dk. Buckhm. Priv. Diary III. vii. 159 A fat, fubsy foot, as unsentimental as could be. 1879 Sala Paris herself again (1880) II. iv. 57 She was a squat, fubsy little old woman. 1895 Spectator 23 Nov. 723 To hold and confess the opposite opinion is to announce oneself a fubsy Philistine. |
| transf. 1837 Marryat Dog-fiend viii, He was..cosily..seated upon the..little fubsy sofa. |