ETYMOLOGY
? from fusty (having an unpleasant or stuffy smell), + lug (something heavy and clumsy), in the sense of something heavy or slow
EXAMPLE
“… Whereupon the richest Babylonians intending to marry, buy the fairest and most beautifull virgins in the company, one out-bidding another in the bargain. The country swains contenting themselues though they haue not the fairest, take the woodden-fac’d wenches, and the ill-fauourd-foule-fustilugs for a small summe, …”
From: A World of Wonders,
Or an Introduction to a Treatise Touching the Conformitie of Ancient and Moderne Wonders.
By Henri Estienne
Translated by R.C., 1607
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