Fussock

//ˈfʌsək// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A fat woman. archaic

    ""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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clydesdalefat personfive-by-fivehamplanetheffalumplandwhale

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""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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