a. [f. SPUD sb. Cf. PUDDY a.] Short and stumpy or plump; thick-set.
a. 1825. in Forby, Voc. E. Anglia.
1854. in Miss Baker, Northampt. Gloss.
1862. Borrow, Wild Wales, II. xiii. 142. The other was a short spuddy fellow, with a broad ugly face. Ibid., 143. He was father of the spuddy military puppy.
1863. W. W. Story, Roba di R., II. ii. § 29. [Jewesses] who fill … the wide chair on which they sit, while they rest their spuddy hands on their knees.
