a. Also 8 fubsey, 9 fubzy. [f. FUB(S + -Y1.] Of the figure, limbs, etc.: Fat and squat.
1780. Mad. D’Arblay, Diary, April. Her daughter, a fubsy, good-humoured … merry old maid.
1826. J. Wilson, Noct. Ambr., Wks. 1855, I. 261. North. Then, James, imagine the miseries inflicted on me, an old grey-headed editor, by fat and fubzy Fellows of Colleges, who are obliged to sit upright in the act of an article, by protuberance of paunch—whose communication feels greasy to the touch, so fat is the style—and may be read in its oiliness, without obliteration during a thunder-shower!
1829. Dk. Buckhm., Priv. Diary, III. vii. 159. A fat, fubsy foot, as unsentimental as could be.
1879. Sala, Paris herself again (1880), II. iv. 57. She was a squat, fubsy little old woman, with a gnarled and knotted visage and an imperturbable Eye.
1895. Spectator, 23 Nov., 723. To hold and confess the opposite opinion is to announce oneself a fubsy Philistine.
transf. 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.
