fubby, a. rare.
(ˈfʌbɪ)
[f. fub n. + -y1. Cf. fobby.]
= fubsy.
| 1790 J. Williams Shrove Tuesday (1794) 12 Th' Idalian urchin and his fubby crew. 1815 Nichols Lit. Anecd. 18th C. IX. 339 note, The Sculptors and Painters apply this epithet to children, and say for instance of the boys of Fiammengo, that they are fubby. 1867 R. S. Hawker Prose Wks. (1893) 144 A ruddy-visaged widow..fubby and interjectional in figure. |