Obs. exc. dial. [? f. FUSTY a. + LUG in the sense of something heavy or slow.] A person, esp. a woman, of gross or corpulent habit; a fat, frowzy woman.
1607. R. C[arew], trans. H. Estienne’s World of Wonders, Preface, 10. The country swains contenting themselues though they haue not the fairest, take the woodden-fac’d wenches, and the ill-fauourd-foule-fustilugs for a small summe.
1621. Burton, Anat. Mel., III. ii. IV. i. (1651), 519. Every lover admires his mistress, though she be … a vast virago, or … a fat fustylugs.
1639. trans. Junius’ Sin Stigmat., xv. 39. You may dayly see such fustilugs walking in the streets, like so many Tunnes, each moving upon two pottle pots.
1746. Exmoor Scolding, 118 (E. D. S.). Ya gurt Fustilugs! Ibid. (1778), Gloss., Fusty-lugs,—spoken of a big-boned Person,—a Great foul Creature.
1867. W. F. Rock, Jim an’ Nell, lxii. (E. D. S., No. 76). ‘Nell isn’t a gurt fustilugs O’ cart-hoss heft, an’ hulking dugs.’
