or fubsy, adj. (old).—Plump; fat; well-filled. FUBSY DUMMY = a well-filled pocket book; FUBSY wench = a plump girl.

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  1785.  GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v.

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  1825.  C. M. WESTMACOTT, The English Spy, I., p. 188.

        Old dowagers, their FUBSY faces,
  Painted to eclipse the Graces.

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  1837.  MARRYAT, Snarleyyow; or The Dog Fiend, viii. He was already cosily, as of wont, seated on the widow’s little FUBSY sofa, with the lady by his side.

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