fussock

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fussock

  • /ˈfʌsək/

Rhymes with -ʌsək

noun fussocks

  1. archaic A fat woman. "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."

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@misc{fussock_2026,
  title = {fussock},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/fussock},
  urldate = {2026-11-07}
}