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Meaning of fussock | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
/ˈfʌsək/

Definitions

A fat woman.

archaic

Equivalents

Ελληνικά φάλαινα
Français toutoune

Examples

“"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."”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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