Lexicographical Neighbors of Stuggy
Literary usage of Stuggy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Peasant Speech of Devon: With Other Matters Connected Therewith by Sarah Hewett (1892)
"stuggy = short and stout. 'They zay Passen Grey is amarried, an' I yer that 'is
missis is a stuggy little body. ..."
2. A Man of Genius: A Story of the Judgment of Paris by Mary Patricia Willcocks (1908)
""stuggy or no, Master Ambrose," said Mrs. Rosevear fiercely, " he earns a full
meal for hisself and me most days. And in my house, let me tell 'ee, ..."
3. Tourist's Guide to South Devon: Rail, Road, River, Coast and Moor by Richard Nicholls Worth (1883)
"... man " (stuggy is good Devonian for " thick-set"), and there is still current
this model address of the inhabitants to their future king in response to ..."
4. Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor by Richard Doddridge Blackmore (1893)
"... and show them what a cross-buttock means, because we are so stuggy: but in
regard of stature, comeliness, and bearing, no woman would look twice at us. ..."
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