pubble

English

Etymology

Perhaps from bubble.

Adjective

pubble (comparative more pubble, superlative most pubble)

1. (Northern England, obsolete) pudgy; fat
   • 1567, Thomas Drant, Horace his arte of Poetrie, pistles, and Satyrs, Englished and to the Earle of Ormounte:

     Thou shalt me fynde fat and wel fed,
     As pubble as may be.

Quotations

• OED has some (and is better than Wiktionary)

References

• “pubble”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.