Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A large, fat woman.
Etymologies
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Examples
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We didn't shoot the fussock with the flag, and I want that settled right now.
Calde of the Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1994
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_We_ didn't shoot the fussock with the flag, and I want that settled right now.
Calde of the Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1994
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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?
Warlock o' Glenwarlock George MacDonald 1864
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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. "
knitandpurl commented on the word fussock
""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
August 6, 2011