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English
Etymology
fubs (variant of fub) + -y
Pronunciation
Adjective
fubsy (comparative fubsier, superlative fubsiest)
- (British) short and stout; low and wide
1780, Madame d'Arblay, diary entry - May 1780:A fubsy, good-humoured, laughing, silly […] old maid.
1833, anonymous author, Frank Orby, page 11:“Pray,” said Doctor Waldron, addressing Mrs. Green, “who is that little fubsy lady, with scarce a morsel of neck, and all covered with ribbands, pursued by that long ghost of a man in the Spanish dress?”
1837, Frederick Marryat, Snarleyyow, or, the Dog Fiend:[…] seated upon the widow's little fubsy sofa […]
1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle:He knew she was nothing but a fubsy pig-pink whorelet and would elbow her face away when she attempted to kiss him after he had finished […]
Translations
short and stout; low and wide