| Back | fustilarian /fuhs-tuh-LAR-ee-uhn/ fustilugs /FUS-ti-lugs/ |
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| Front | noun A fat and slovenly person. [From Middle English fusty (smelly, moldy). Earliest documented use: 1600. The first recorded use of the word is from Shakespeare's Henry IV in which Falstaff exclaims, "Away, you scullion! You rampallion! You fustilarian! I'll tickle your catastrophe."] "I've no fancy to be guzzled up by a wolf or spitted on the tusks of one of the fustilarian wild boars." - Joan Aiken; Whispering Mountain; Starscape; 2002. "'Come on, you old fustilugs,' he called, for she wheezed and blew and mounted with difficulty." - Julian Rathbone; Joseph; Little Brown; 2001. |
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