Word of the Day: SPUDDY

ETYMOLOGY
from spud (a short or stumpy person or thing; a potato) + -y

EXAMPLE
“… suddenly the door opened, and a fat, short, little, round, spuddy fellow – muffled up in enormous cloaks and greatcoats, till only the point of a prodigiously red nose was visible – hobbled, as fast as he could, down the steps …”

From: Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine
For 1835
Volume II. New Series.
Phadde and His Friends 
Chapter II. The Englishman’s Story.