fubsy
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of fubsy
Example Sentences
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I can't stand these fubsy people who tell you, 'Oh, my dog talks.'
From Time Magazine Archive
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
In Serpentine avenue Beelzebub showed me her, a fubsy widow.
From Ulysses by Joyce, James
"Is she neaw comely?—ay, comelier far than fat, fubsy Sukey here—or than Nancy Holt, wi' her yallo hure an frecklet feace—an yet ye ca' her a witch."
From The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest by Ainsworth, William Harrison
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