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Feb. 10, 2016
fubsy \FUHB-zee\ adjective
1. British Dialect. short and stout.
Quotes Oppress not the cubs of the stranger, but hail them as Sister
and Brother, / For though they are little and fubsy, it may be the Bear
is their mother.
-- Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, 1894 Origin Fubsy is formed on the
basis of the obsolete term fubs or fub, used as a term of endearment
meaning "chubby person." It entered English in the late 1700s. More
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