fubsy

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For though they are little and fubsy, it may be the Bear is their mother.

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  • The word embrangle (to confuse or entangle) won with 1,434 votes, while fubsy (short and stout) came in a distant second. —  TIME.com: Top Stories
  • Poet Laureate Andrew Motion has adopted "skirr" and actor Stephen Fry is championing the survival of "fubsy." —  The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
  • At its heart, this attitude embrangles the concepts of "need" and "want"; those fubsy fuddy-duddies with griseous imaginations believe that words no longer in frequent use will never in the future be needed by English speakers and writers more nitid than themselves. —  A Gentleman's C
  • Sounds a bit twee to me, but a some of the words have an agrestic charm whilst others are both fubsy and reborant. —  Club Troppo
  • 'But you, you fubsy old pig, must stay behind and work.' —  Life's Handicap
 

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  1. From obsolete fubs, chubby person.
 

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/ˈfubɪ, zi/
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