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fubsy

[fuhb-zee]

adjective

British Dialect.
fubsier, fubsiest 
  1. short and stout.



fubsy

/ ˈfʌbzɪ /

adjective

  1. archaic,  short and stout; squat

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Word History and Origins

Origin of fubsy1

1770–80; obsolete fubs, fub chubby person + -y 1; -s 4, -sy
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Word History and Origins

Origin of fubsy1

C18: from obsolete fubs plump person
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Example Sentences

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Other “worthy” words it wants to see back in circulation include “fubsy,” which means fat and squat, “salubrious,” meaning healthy, and “anechdoche,” defined as a conversation in which everyone is talking but no one is listening.

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Baby animals have the edge - fubsy lion cubs are cute - but their adult counterparts are, no matter how handsome, menacing.

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Fubby, fub′i, Fubsy, fub′zi, adj. chubby.

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On Says You! you will hear real or bluff definitions of such words as trank, chelp, and fubsy.

Old Frisian or Old French oddments, fubsy eloquences of Middle English and exotic intrusions from the Arabic.

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