fubsy
Americanadjective
adjective
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Origin of fubsy
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.
From Washington Times
Baby animals have the edge - fubsy lion cubs are cute - but their adult counterparts are, no matter how handsome, menacing.
From BBC
Fubby, fub′i, Fubsy, fub′zi, adj. chubby.
From Project Gutenberg
On Says You! you will hear real or bluff definitions of such words as trank, chelp, and fubsy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Old Frisian or Old French oddments, fubsy eloquences of Middle English and exotic intrusions from the Arabic.
From Time Magazine Archive
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