fodgeladj.n.
/ˈfɒdʒəl/, U.S. /ˈfɑdʒəl/, /ˈfɔdʒəl/ Originally and chiefly Scottish.
Of a person: plump, rounded; buxom. Also as n. Sc. National Dict. (at cited word) records the word as still in use (as both adjective and noun) in north-eastern Scotland in 1943.
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the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > broad shape or physique > [adjective] > fat or plump
fatc893
frimOE
fullOE
overfatOE
greatOE
bald1297
roundc1300
encorsivea1340
fattishc1369
fleshyc1369
fleshlyc1374
repletea1398
largec1405
corsious1430
corpulentc1440
corsyc1440
fulsome1447
portlyc1487
corporate1509
foggy fata1529
corsive1530
foggish?1537
plump1545
fatty1552
fleshful1552
pubble1566
plum1570
pursy1576
well-fleshed1576
gross?1577
fog1582
forfatted1586
gulchy1598
bouksome1600
fat-fed1607
meatified1607
chuff1609
plumpya1616
bloat1638
blowze-like1647
obese1651
jollya1661
bloated1664
chubbed1674
pluffya1689
puffya1689
pussy1688
sappy1694
crummy1718
chubby1722
fodgel1724
well-padded1737
beefy1743
plumpish1753
pudsy1754
rotund1762
portable1770
lusty1777
roundabout1787
well-cushioned1802
plenitudinous1803
stout1804
embonpointc1806
roly-poly1808
adipose1810
roll-about1815
foggy1817
poddy1823
porky1828
hide-blown1834
tubby1835
stoutish1836
tubbish1836
superfatted1841
pottle-bodied1842
pincushiony1851
opulent1882
well-covered1884
well-upholstered1886
butterball1888
endomorphic1888
tisty-tosty1888
pachyntic1890
barrel-bodied1894
overweight1899
pussy-gutted1906
upholstered1924
the world > life > the body > bodily height > shortness > [adjective] > and broad
short shoulderedc1405
bunting1584
squaddy1593
chubby1611
truncheon1611
squat1630
squabbish1666
truss1674
squab1675
squad1675
stocky1676
punch1679
trunch1683
squat1688
stub1711
fodgel1724
thick-set1724
puddy1747
chunky1749
dumpy1750
squabby1754
knurly1758
clunch1776
trunchy1778
fubsy1780
punchy1780
humpty-dumpty1785
trunched1787
pudgy1788
fubby1790
runty1807
squattish1809
roly-poly1818
stumpy1822
hoddy-doddy1824
spuddya1825
hodmandod1825
stubby1831
podgy1832
fubsical1834
dumpty1847
fatling1847
stuggy1847
nuggety1856
cloddy1876
blocky1879
chumpy188.
cobby1883
squidgy1891
stockish1913
pyknic1925
humpisha1935
1724 A. Ramsay Misc. Wks. 320 I am a fine fodgel Lass.
1793 R. Burns Poems (ed. 2) II. 219 If..ye chance to light Upon a fine, fat, fodgel wight.
1858 M. Porteous Real Souter Johnny (ed. 2) 11 He was a gash wee fodgel body.
1883 Dundee Courier & Argus 11 Sept. 7 Grannie was a fodgel, red-cheeked, gaucy, hale old wife.
1952 M. Glendinning in Sc. National Dict. (1956) IV. 135/1 [Ulster] A fodgel of a fella.
1991 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 27 Jan. vii. 14/1 ‘Full-figured’..seems to have been invented by makers of bras to flatter a certain, uh, fodgel clientele.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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