fat.
Carrying more fat than usual on one's body; plump; not lean or thin.
Meaning & usage
Carrying more fat than usual on one's body; plump; not lean or thin.
The fat man had problems going through the door.
The fattest pig should yield the most meat.
Thick; large.
The fat wallets of the men from the city brought joy to the peddlers.
Bulbous; rotund.
Bountiful.
Oily; greasy; unctuous; rich (said of food).
Exhibiting the qualities of a fat animal; coarse; heavy; gross; dull; stupid.
Fertile; productive.
a fat soil; a fat pasture
Rich; producing a large income; desirable.
It's a fat contract for a fat part in the film, so he’ll grown fat on the profits.
a fat benefice; a fat office; a fat job
Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate.
Of a character which enables the compositor to make large wages; said of matter containing blank, cuts, or many leads, etc.
a fat take; a fat page
Being a shot in which the ground is struck before the ball.
Of a role: significant; major; meaty.
Being greatly or substantially such; real.
Having a full or rich sound with strong bass and low-midrange presence.
Carrying additional data or functionality.
fat client
a fat pointer
Alternative form of phat.
Where this word comes from
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”).
A specialized animal tissue with high lipid content, used for long-term storage of energy: fat tissue.
Mammals that hibernate have plenty of fat to keep them warm during the winter.
A specialized animal tissue with high lipid content, used for long-term storage of energy: fat tissue. Such tissue as food: the fatty portion of (or trimmings from) meat cuts.
Ask the butcher for a few pounds of fat for our greens.
A lipid that is solid at room temperature, which fat tissue contains and which is also found in the blood circulation; sometimes, a refined substance chemically resembling such naturally occurring lipids.
Dietary fat is not the evil that it was once misapprehended to be; carbs are increasingly recognized as a bigger driver of atherosclerosis via chronic insulin resistance and the vascular processes that cascade from it.
That part of an organization deemed wasteful.
We need to trim the fat in this company
An erection.
I saw Daniel crack a fat.
A poorly played shot where the ball is struck by the top part of the club head. (see also thin, shank, toe)
The best or richest productions; the best part.
to live on the fat of the land
Work containing much blank, or its equivalent, and therefore profitable to the compositor.
A fat person.
A beef cattle fattened for sale.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English fat, fatt, fatte, from the adjective above, and possibly from Old English fǣt (“fat”, recorded once), from Proto-West Germanic *fait, from Proto-Germanic *faitą, *faitaz (“fat”).
To make fat; to fatten.
kill the fatted calf
To become fat; to fatten.
To hit (a golf ball) with a fat shot.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English fat, fatt, fatte, from the adjective above, and possibly from Old English fǣt (“fat”, recorded once), from Proto-West Germanic *fait, from Proto-Germanic *faitą, *faitaz (“fat”).
A large tub or vessel for water, wine, or other liquids; a cistern.
A dry measure, generally equal to nine bushels.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English fat, from Old English fæt (“vat, vessel, jar, cup, casket, division”), from Proto-Germanic *fatą (“vessel”), from Proto-Indo-European *pod- (“vessel”). Cognate with Dutch vat (“barrel, vessel”), German Fass (“barrel, drum”), Swedish fat (“barrel, dish, cask”). See vat.
A fop or dandy.
Where this word comes from
From French fat (“conceited person”).
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