"...and besides, she knows she is fubsy and frumpy, and simply cannot compete with dashing Hélène." - Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor.
There's a building Manhattan that I used to call the fubs building -- for "fat, ugly, big, squat". Imagine my surprise when I discovered the meaning of fubsy. :-)
You prayed to the devil in Serpentine avenue that the fubsy widow in front might lift her clothes still more from the wet street.Joyce, Ulysses, 3
"...and besides, she knows she is fubsy and frumpy, and simply cannot compete with dashing Hélène."
- Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor.
There's a building Manhattan that I used to call the fubs building -- for "fat, ugly, big, squat". Imagine my surprise when I discovered the meaning of fubsy. :-)
You prayed to the devil in Serpentine avenue that the fubsy widow in front might lift her clothes still more from the wet street.
Joyce, Ulysses, 3