? Obs. [? = FUBSY.] A contemptuous designation applied to women. Also attrib.

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1719.  D’Urfey, Pills, V. 108.

        With that the Flat-capt Fusby smil’d,
  And would have blush’d, but that she cou’d not;
Alas! says she, we’re soon beguil’d,
  By Men to do those things we shou’d not.

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1845.  Punch, 29 Nov., 240. A fusby woman who has indulged in the vulgar weakness of giving her children fine names.

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