Short, fat, and thickset; squat and dumpy in build or appearance.
Variant spelling of 'fubby,' likely from the same root 'fub' meaning to swell, with -sy as a variant diminutive suffix. Common in 18th-century English dialect.
This is an alternate spelling of fubby, showing how older English had multiple ways to describe the same physical type—fubsy sounds almost like a nursery rhyme word, making it seem less harsh than it might be.
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