fat
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: făt
ipa: /fæt/
rhymes: -æt
homophone: phat
Forms: form: fatter
form: fattest
Etymology: From Middle English fat, from Old English fǣtt (“fatted, fat”), from Proto-West Germanic *faitid (“fatted”), originally the past participle of the verb *faitijan (“to make fat”), from *fait (“fat”).
Senses: examples: text: The fat man had problems going through the door.
text: The fattest pig should yield the most meat.
text: 1932, New Orleans (La.) Board of Health, Vox Sanitatis
While Hennessey is pouring the milk, the fat guy with the big pot-belly, will come over and write a lot of junk in his little book.
text: […] Ruth‐ellen Stark and Elizabeth Ryan are about ten times fatter, but even they can't compare to Bruce…”
ref: 1976 September 29, Richard Flaste, “Viewing Childhood As it Is”, in The New York Times:
text: And there he stood, as uncouth as ever, naked as the day he was born, but fatter and chinnier and even more self-satisfied […]
ref: 1994, Craig Brown, The hounding of John Thomas:
text: Because, really, who would like the fat girl? Sebastian said I was crazy for thinking that.
ref: 2014, Isabel Quintero, Gabi, a Girl in Pieces, Cinco Puntos Press, →ISBN, page 46:
glosses: Carrying more fat than usual on one's body; plump; not lean or thin.
examples: text: The fat wallets of the men from the city brought joy to the peddlers.
text: The thickest salmon, the curdiest trout, the fattest partridge, and the most tender woodcock smoked on his board, and, rumor said, cooked with a delicacy that more pretentious houses could not rival.
ref: 1861, Charles James Lever, A Day's Ride:
glosses: Thick; large.
examples: text: So this was my future home, I thought! […] Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
ref: 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
glosses: Bulbous; rotund.
glosses: Bountiful.
glosses: Oily; greasy; unctuous; rich (said of food).
examples: text: Make the heart of this people fat,[…]
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 6:10, column 1:
text: 1855 July 21, Ralph Waldo Emerson, letter to Walter Whitman
making our western wits fat & mean
glosses: Exhibiting the qualities of a fat animal; coarse; heavy; gross; dull; stupid.
examples: text: a fat soil; a fat pasture
text: Land was fatter, soil was rich, hands were many
ref: 1974, “Which Way Africa”, performed by Tunji Oyelana:
glosses: Fertile; productive.
examples: text: a fat benefice; a fat office;  a fat job
text: now parson of Troston, a fat living in Suffolk
ref: 1882, Thomas Carlyle, Reminiscences:
glosses: Rich; producing a large income; desirable.
examples: , "Why Christ's Doctrine was Rejected"
persons grown fat and wealthy by a long and successful imposture
glosses: Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate.
examples: text: a fat take; a fat page
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: Of a character which enables the compositor to make large wages; said of matter containing blank, cuts, or many leads, etc.
examples: text: Hitting a thin shot from a fairway bunker is more productive than hitting a fat shot.
ref: 1992, DeDe Owens, Linda K. Bunker, Advanced Golf: Steps to Success, page 81:
topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Being a shot in which the ground is struck before the ball.
examples: text: He is what the theatre calls a “fat” role — a man suddenly confronted by a terrible duty. He is called upon to revenge the murder of his father and to right a wrong against the state.
ref: 1965, Edmund Fuller, A Pageant of the Theatre, page 131:
text: He seeks a fat role in a hit show, lest he diminish his market value.
ref: 1997, Harold Clurman, On Directing, page 12:
text: Joe Hirakawa, formerly of the Seattle Civic Repertory Theatre, was a waterfront peddler in “Madame Butterfly” and had a fat role in “Beauty Parlor,” an indie.
ref: 2012, Greg Robinson, Larry S. Tajiri, Pacific Citizens, page 9:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: Of a role: significant; major; meaty.
examples: 1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
I'd've liked to hang around but the guys were in a fat hurry.
glosses: Being greatly or substantially such; real.
examples: text: fat client
text: a fat pointer
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Carrying additional data or functionality.
examples: text: This isn't a place to talk about “hitting the decks” and making “fat beats”—you're not selling to an industry peer.
ref: 2011, Joe Shambro, How to Start a Home-based DJ Business, page 19:
glosses: Alternative form of phat.
Synonyms: sense: carrying a larger than normal amount of fat
word: chubby
word: chunky
word: corpulent
word: lardy
word: obese
word: overweight
word: plump
word: porky
word: rotund
word: tubby
word: well-fed
sense: thick
word: thick
word: bountiful
word: prosperous
Derived terms: big fat
big-fat
big, fat, hairy deal
big fat zero
cut it fat
deathfat
fat acceptance
fat activist
fat and happy
fat arrow
fat as a barrel
fat as a fool
fat as a house
fat as a pig
fat-ass
fatassed
fat-assed
fat ball
fat beard
fatbeard
fat bike
fatbike
fat body
fatbutt
fat-buttocked
fat cat
fat catshark
fat cell
fat city
fat client
fat comma
fat day
fat dormouse
fat embolism
fatface
fat fantasy
fat farm
fat finger
fat-finger
fat-fingered
fatfluencer
fat fuck
fatfuck
fathead
fatheaded
fat hen
fat innkeeper
fat-kidneyed
fatkini
fat knot
fat lady
fat lava
fatling
fat link
fat lip
fat logic
fat lot
fat lot of good
fat lute
fatly
Fatmerican
fatmisia
fatmobile
fat mouse
fatness
fat pants
fatphobe
fatphobia
fatphobic
fat quarter
fat rascal
fat-rumped sheep
fat shame
fat-shame
fat-shamer
fat shaming
fat-shaming
fatshion
fatshionista
fatshit
fat sleeper
fatsome
fatsploitation
fatspo
fatstock
fatsuit
fat suit
fat tail
fat-tail
fat-tailed
fat-tailed dunnart
fat-tailed dwarf lemur
fat-tailed lemur
fat-tailed sheep
fat tax
fattie
fattish
fattism
fattist
fatty
fatware
fat-witted
fatwood
high-fat
hog fat
it ain't over 'til the fat lady sings
laugh and grow fat
mash-fat
one fat lady
overfat
run to fat
skinny fat
small fat
stick fat
superfat
the fat is in the fire
two fat ladies
unfat