ˈpluggy, a. dial.
[f. plug n. + -y.]
a. Short and stumpy. colloq. b. Stiff, as clay.
| a 1825 Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Pluggy, short, thick, sturdy. 1861 A. Strickland Old Friends Ser. ii. ii. 33 Betty, Molly, and the cook..united..in describing Martin..as ‘a short, pluggy (thick) man, with a pug nose’. 1892 H. Hutchinson Fairway Isl. 8 The crumbly ploughed land did not hold the clean impression as the pluggy clay had done. |