fussock

English

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfʌsək/
• Rhymes: -ʌsək

Noun

fussock (plural fussocks)

1. (archaic) A fat woman.
   • 1838, John P. Kennedy, chapter X, in Rob of the Bowl‎^[1], volume I:

     "Ay, the mercer's wife—I shall come to her presently. Well, Peregrine, as you have often seen, is a shade or so jealous of that fussock, his wife, who looks, when she is tricked out in her new russet grogram cloak, more like a brown haycock in motion than a living woman."

Hypernyms

• woman
• landwhale

Translations

Translations

• French: toutoune (fr) f
• Greek: φάλαινα (el) f (fálaina)
• Tagalog: tambugak

Further reading

• [Francis Grose] (1785) “Fussock”, in A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, London: […] S. Hooper, […], →OCLC: “a lazy fat woman”