a. rare. [f. FUB sb. + -Y1. Cf. FOBBY.] = FUBSY.
1790. J. Williams, Shrove Tuesday (1794), 12. Th’ Idalian urchin and his fubby crew.
1815. Nichols, Lit. Anecd. 18th C., IX. 339, note. The Sculptors and Painters apply this epithet to children, and say for instance of the boys of Fiammengo, that they are fubby.
1867. R. S. Hawker, Prose Wks. (1893), 144. Here we received a smiling welcome from the hostess, a ruddy-visaged widow,—John Treworgy was her Keltic name—fubby and interjectional in figure.
