What does fubsy mean?
Fubsy means (British) short and stout; low and wide.
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/ˈfʌb.sɪ/ · adjective
(British) short and stout; low and wide.
A fubsy, good-humoured, laughing, silly […] old maid.
“Pray,” said Doctor Waldron, addressing Mrs. Green, “who is that little fubsy lady, with scarce a morsel of neck, and all covered with ribbands, pursued by that long ghost of a man in the Spanish dress?”
[…] seated upon the widow's little fubsy sofa […]
He knew she was nothing but a fubsy pig-pink whorelet and would elbow her face away when she attempted to kiss him after he had finished […]
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Fubsy means (British) short and stout; low and wide.
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A fubsy, good-humoured, laughing, silly […] old maid.
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