Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A large, fat woman.
Examples
“We didn't shoot the fussock with the flag, and I want that settled right now.”
“_We_ didn't shoot the fussock with the flag, and I want that settled right now.”
“Du ye tak me and Cosmo here for bairns 'at wad fa' a greetin 'gien ye tellt them their ba-lamb wasna a leevin' ane-naething but a fussock o 'cotton-'oo', rowed roon 'a bit stick?”
“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. ”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘fussock’.
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Hateful Communication
sock puppet, bescumber, ordure, meconium, steatopygous, ninnyhammer, buncombe, hircismus, axillism, fussock, fice, carminative and 2 more...
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derogatory terms I should use more often
assmarmot, scuzzbucket, scumbag, sleazebag, slimeball, swamp donkey, barathrum, cacafuego, clarty-paps, comprachico, ephemeromorph, creodont and 162 more...
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Insults that the insulted must look u...
fustilugs, harridan, hircismus, caprylic, hircine, capric, fussock, feist, cacafuego
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looked up
Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1408 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3251 more...
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Depraved and Insulting English
Vocabulary from Peter Novobatzky's and Ammon Shea's highly entertaining book of words I wish I could use in conversation.
ablutophobic, aboiement, abydocomist, acalculiac, achilous, acokoinonia, acrocephalic, acrotophiliac, acrotomophiliac, ameliotist, apotemnophiliac, monopediomaniac and 349 more...
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knitandpurl ""Drunken fussock," observed the child.
"You want to mind your manners," said Jim. "Speaking of your elders and betters like that.""
The Shadow in the North by Philip Pullman, p 117 of the Knopf paperback Aug 6, 2011