"That's a great deal to make one word mean," Alice said in a thoughtful tone. "When I make a word do a lot of work like that," said Humpty Dumpty, "I always pay it extra."
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Tuesday, 12 February 2013

Fubsy

  
I  suspect the word fubsy is no longer acceptable in these days of political correctness.  It means plump and squat. 


The word is first recorded in Fanny Burney’s diary for April 1780 – “Her daughter, a fubsy, good-humoured..merry old maid.”  But my favourite example is from J Wilson in the early nineteenth century when he referred to “Fat and fubzy Fellows of colleges”.
Fubsy, fubzy