Green’s Dictionary of Slang

usu. of a woman, plump, buxom.

1921		Broadway Brevities Dec 19: Isn't Diana Allen getting very zoftig?
1929		M. Levin Reporter 395: A round face and black hair, and you know – zaftig. Nicely built.
1929		S.J. Perelman Dawn Ginsbergh’s Revenge 38: ‘Trader Horn’ is wired for electricity and lights up with an eerie glow at night that is positively zoftik.
1936		M. Levin Old Bunch (1946) 76: Hot mama! That broad in the red suit is pretty zaftig.
1939		J. Weidman What’s In It For Me? 142: Miss Vineguard surveying the works like a zofftig mama enough watching a Coney Island Baby show.
1940		J.H. O’Hara Pal Joey 83: Inclined to take on a little weight but I also like them zoftick.
1952		(con. 1920s) ‘Harry Grey’ Hoods (1953) 86: You got something nice sitting around the lobby, something softic, not flat-chested?
1953		S. Bellow Augie March (1996) 460: A zaftige piece too, in a mink stole.
1955		B. Appel Tough Guy [ebook] Curving up now, becoming—what was the hebe word? [...] Yeh, that was it. Zaftig! Juicy! Fat, soft and juicy.
1962		S. Longstreet Flesh Peddlers (1964) 178: ‘And here,’ said the lyric writer, ‘we go into a zaftig chorus with a good hard beat, and the broads come out, see, made up like these here native broads.’.
1971		J.D. Horan Blue Messiah 78: She’s built [...] A real zoftig broad.
1975		L. Rosten Dear ‘Herm’ 188: Man, she is as zaftig as May West in her prime of life.
1989		H. Harrison Bill [...] on the Planet of Robot Slaves (1991) 9: ‘The doctor is otherwise engaged [...]’ the zaftig corporal at reception said.
2003		J. Lethem Fortress of Solitude 413: The woman with a black crewcut, but zaftig in her uniform.
2010		J. Ellroy Hilliker Curse 6: Two of the guys had zaftig blond girlfriends.
2019		C.D. Rosales Word Is Bone [ebook] His mamma was a small woman with a full figure that narrowed only at the waist and neck, but not much. [...] June’s father had called her zaftig.
2023		(con. 1962) J. Ellroy Enchanters 47: Monroe’s zaftig threads.