Also 7 fussocks. [Cf. FUSS sb.1; also fuss, FUZZ sb.1, FUZZ-BALL.]
1. A fat, unwieldy woman. dial. or slang.
a. 1700. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v., A Fat Fussocks, a Flusom, Fat, Strapping Woman.
c. 1746. J. Collier (Tim Bobbin), View Lanc. Dial., Wks. (1862), 55. This broddling Fussock lookt feaw os Tunor [a dog] when id done.
1868. Waugh, Sneck Bant, ii. 40. ‘Nay,’ cried Billy; ‘thae’rt noan beawn to run off thi bargain becose o’ this fuzzock makin’ her din, arto?’
2. Sc. A fluffy mass (of cotton).
1882. G. Macdonald, Castle Warlock, xxiv. (1883), 153. A fussock o cotton-’oo’ rowed roon a bit o’ stick.
Hence † Fussock v. Obs. intr., to roll about in an unwieldy way. Implied in † Fussocking ppl. a. ? Obs.
1782. Charlotte Burney, in Mad. D’Arblay’s Early Diary (1889), II. 297. Mrs. Percy is a vulgar, fussocking, proud woman; but very civil to us.
1847–78. Halliwell, Fussocking, large and fat.
