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Noun
fussock (plural fussocks)
- (archaic) A fat woman.
1838, John P. Kennedy, chapter X, in Rob of the Bowl, volume I:"Ay, the mercer's wife—I shall come to her presently. Well, Peregrine, as you have often seen, is a shade or so jealous of that fussock, his wife, who looks, when she is tricked out in her new russet grogram cloak, more like a brown haycock in motion than a living woman."
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- [Francis Grose] (1785) “Fussock”, in A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, London: S. Hooper, , →OCLC.: “a lazy fat woman”