a. dial. [? Related to stug, STUCK a.
Cf. ‘Stugged, healthy, strong’ (Mrs. M. Palmer’s Devon Dial., 1839, Gloss.).]
Of a person: Stocky, thick-set, sturdy.
1847. Halliwell, Stuggy, thick and stout. Devon.
1864. Blackmore, Clara Vaughan, lxxxiii. (1872), 368. To use a Devonshire word, the farmer was too ‘stuggy.’
1892. P. H. Emerson, Son of Fens, viii. 74. She was stuggy and fat.
