fustilugs n.
‘a Fulsom, Beastly, Nasty Woman’ (B.E.).
![]() | Estienne’s World of Wonders Pref. 10: The country swains contenting themselues though they haue not the fairest, take the woodden-fac’d wenches and the ill-fauourd-foule-fustilugs for a small summe. | (trans.)|
![]() | Anatomy of Melancholy (1651) III.ii.IV.i: Every lover admires his mistress, though she be [...] a vast virago, or [...] a fat fustylugs. | |
![]() | quoted in Ency. Dict. n.p.: You may daily see such fustilugs walking in the streets, like so many tuns [N]. | |
![]() | Empress of Morocco Act I: Fye, Fye, Fustilugs, be not yellow For he is but a dungy Fellow. | |
![]() | Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Fustiluggs, a Fulsom, Beastly, Nasty Woman. | |
![]() | New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698]. | |
, , , | ![]() | Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698]. |
![]() | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: Fusty Luggs, a beastly, sluttish woman. | |
![]() | Lex. Balatronicum [as cit. 1785]. | |
![]() | Gloss. (1888) I 341: fustilugs. A very fat person; so said to mean in the Exmoor dialect. Sherwood also translates it in the French by ‘Coche, femme bien grosse;’ otherwise I should have derived it from fusty and lugs, i.e. musty ears. | |
![]() | Examiner 8 June 2/1: A vast virago, a fat fustilugs, whom thou couldst not fancy for a world. | |
![]() | Western Times 28 May 2/4: Fustiluggs — a big-boned person — Ill-favoured. |