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fussocks

fussocks is the plural of fussock.

Meaning of fussock

Noun

fussock (plural 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."1838, John P. Kennedy, chapter X, in Rob of the Bowl, volume I

Questions about fussocks

What is fussocks the plural of?
Fussocks is the plural of fussock.

Words near fussocks in the dictionary

  1. fussing over
  2. fussings
  3. fussless
  4. fusslessness
  5. fussock
  6. fussocks
  7. fussocky
  8. fusspot
  9. fusspots
  10. fusspotted
  11. fusspottery

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