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comparative fubsier, superlative fubsiest
(British) short and stout; low and wide quotations examples
A fubsy, good-humoured, laughing, silly […] old maid.
1780, Madame d'Arblay, diary entry - May 1780
“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?”
1833, anonymous author, Frank Orby, page 11
[…] seated upon the widow's little fubsy sofa […]
1837, Frederick Marryat, Snarleyyow, or, the Dog Fiend
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 […]
1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle