fat
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Etymology 1
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”).
Adjective
fat (comparative fatter, superlative fattest)
- Carrying more fat than usual on one's body; plump; not lean or thin.
- The fat man had trouble getting through the door.
- The fattest pig should yield the most meat.
- 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.
- 1976 September 29, Richard Flaste, “Viewing Childhood As it Is”, in The New York Times:
- […] Ruth‐ellen Stark and Elizabeth Ryan are about ten times fatter, but even they can't compare to Bruce…”
- 2014, Isabel Quintero, Gabi, a Girl in Pieces, Cinco Puntos Press, →ISBN, page 46:
- Because, really, who would like the fat girl? Sebastian said I was crazy for thinking that.
- Thick; large.
- The fat wallets of the men from the city brought joy to the peddlers.
- 1861, Charles James Lever, A Day's Ride:
- 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.
- Bulbous; rotund.
- 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
- 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.
- Bountiful.
- Oily; greasy; unctuous; rich (said of food).
- (obsolete) Exhibiting the qualities of a fat animal; coarse; heavy; gross; dull; stupid.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 6:10, column 1:
- Make the heart of this people fat, […]
- 1855 July 21, Ralph Waldo Emerson, letter to Walter Whitman
- making our western wits fat & mean
- Fertile; productive.
- 1974, “Which Way Africa”, performed by Tunji Oyelana:
- Land was fatter, soil was rich, hands were many
- a fat soil; a fat pasture
- Rich; producing a large income; desirable.
- a fat benefice; a fat office; a fat job
- 1882, Thomas Carlyle, Reminiscences:
- now parson of Troston, a fat living in Suffolk
- Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate.
- 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:, "Why Christ's Doctrine was Rejected"
- persons grown fat and wealthy by a long and successful imposture
- (dated, printing) 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
- (golf) Being a shot in which the ground is struck before the ball.
- 1992, DeDe Owens, Linda K. Bunker, Advanced Golf: Steps to Success, page 81:
- Hitting a thin shot from a fairway bunker is more productive than hitting a fat shot.
- (theater) Of a role: significant; major; meaty.
- 1965, Edmund Fuller, A Pageant of the Theatre, page 131:
- 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.
- 1997, Harold Clurman, On Directing, page 12:
- He seeks a fat role in a hit show, lest he diminish his market value.
- 2012, Greg Robinson, Larry S. Tajiri, Pacific Citizens, page 9:
- 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.
- (slang) Being greatly or substantially such; real.
- 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.
- 1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
- (computing) Carrying additional data or functionality.
- a fat pointer
- Alternative form of phat
- 2011, Joe Shambro, How to Start a Home-based DJ Business, page 19:
- This isn't a place to talk about “hitting the decks” and making “fat beats”—you're not selling to an industry peer.
Synonyms
- (carrying a larger than normal amount of fat): chubby, chunky, corpulent, lardy (slang), obese, overweight, plump, porky (slang), rotund, tubby, well-fed; see also Thesaurus:obese
- (thick): thick
- (bountiful): bountiful, prosperous
Antonyms
Derived terms
- a fat lot
- big fat, big-fat
- big, fat, hairy deal
- big fat zero
- fat acceptance
- fat activist
- fat and happy
- fat arrow
- fat as a fool
- fat as a house
- fat as a pig
- fat-ass
- fat-assed
- fat ball
- fatbeard
- fat beard
- fat bike, fatbike
- fat body
- fat-buttocked
- fat cat
- fat catshark
- fat cell
- fat city
- fat client
- fat comma
- fat day
- fat dormouse
- fat embolism
- fat fantasy
- fat farm
- fat fetishism
- fat finger
- fat-finger
- fat-fingered
- fat fuck
- fat hen
- fat innkeeper
- fat-kidneyed
- fat knot
- fat lava
- fat link
- fat lip
- fat logic
- fat lot of good
- fat lute
- fat mouse
- fatness
- fat pants
- fat quarter
- fat rascal
- fat shame
- fat-shame
- fat-shamer
- fat-shaming
- fat shaming
- fat sleeper
- fat suit
- fat tail
- fat-tail
- fat-tailed
- fat-tailed dunnart
- fat-tailed dwarf lemur
- fat-tailed lemur
- fat-tailed sheep
- fat tax
- fatty
- fat-witted
- high-fat
- hog fat
- it ain't over 'til the fat lady sings
- laugh and grow fat
- mash-fat
- one fat lady
- run to fat
- skinny fat
- small fat
- stick fat
- the fat is in the fire
- two fat ladies
Descendants
- Sranan Tongo: fatu
Translations
carrying a larger than normal amount of fat on one's body
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thick
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bountiful
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Etymology 2
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”).
Noun
fat (usually uncountable, plural fats)
- (uncountable) 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.
- Hyponym: blubber
- 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.
- (countable) 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.
- 2018, Kristin Lawless, Formerly known as food, →ISBN, page 32:
- In fact, the fats that are most stable and least likely to oxidize with heat are the highly saturated fats we've long been told to avoid—lard, tallow, butter, and coconut and palm oils.
- That part of an organization deemed wasteful.
- We need to trim the fat in this company
- (slang) An erection.
- I saw Daniel crack a fat.
- (golf) 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
- (dated, printing) Work containing much blank, or its equivalent, and therefore profitable to the compositor.
- (informal, derogatory) A fat person.
- 1996, Roger Stone, "Local Swing Fever", highlighted by National Enquirer in September 1996 and Daily Mail in January 2019
- Prefer military, bodybuilders, jocks. No smokers or fats please.
- 1996, Roger Stone, "Local Swing Fever", highlighted by National Enquirer in September 1996 and Daily Mail in January 2019
- A beef cattle fattened for sale.
- 1934, Henry G. Lamond, An Aviary On The Plains, page 7:
- Before riding over to the fats we'll have a look about us.
Synonyms
- (animal tissue): adipose tissue, lard (in animals; derogatory slang when used of human fat), suet (perivisceral type)
- (substance chemically resembling the oils in animal fat): grease, lard
- (fat person): fatty, fatso see also Thesaurus:fat person
Derived terms
- animal fat
- baby fat
- beige fat
- body fat
- brown fat
- butterfat
- caul fat
- chew the fat
- crack a fat
- death fat
- deep-fat-fry
- deep-fat fryer
- fatberg
- fat camp
- fat chance
- fat content
- fat-free
- fat is flavor
- fat is flavour
- fatless
- fat of the land
- fat pad
- fat sandwich
- fat-soluble
- fatten
- full-fat
- leaf fat
- low-fat
- milkfat
- otoba fat
- palm fat
- polyunsaturated fat
- pull someone's fat out of the fire
- pull the fat out of the fire
- puppy fat
- reduced-fat milk
- saturated fat
- the fat hit the fire
- trans fat
- unsaturated fat
- vegetable fat
- white fat
- wool fat
- yellow fat disease
Descendants
- Sranan Tongo: fatu
Translations
specialized animal tissue
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refined substance chemically resembling the oils in animal fat
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that part of an organization deemed wasteful
- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
See also
Verb
fat (third-person singular simple present fats, present participle fatting, simple past and past participle fatted)
- (transitive, archaic) To make fat; to fatten.
- (intransitive, archaic) To become fat; to fatten.
- (transitive, golf) To hit (a golf ball) with a fat shot.
- 2019 April 2, Rick Reilly, How and why President Trump cheats at golf — even when he’s playing against Tiger Woods, archived from the original on 2022-03-29:
- “On this one hole, Donald hits his second and fats it into the water,” Faxon remembers. “But he quickly says to me, ‘Hey, throw me another ball; they weren’t looking.’ So I do. But he fats that one into the water, too. So he drives up and drops where he should’ve dropped the first time and hits it on the green.”
Derived terms
Translations
to make fat; to fatten
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Etymology 3
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.
Noun
fat (plural fats)
- (obsolete) A large tub or vessel for water, wine, or other liquids; a cistern.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Joel 2:24, column 1:
- And the floores ſhall bee full of wheate, and the fats ſhall ouerflowe with wine and oyle.
- 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 429:
- In 1431 New College purchases brewing vessels, under the names of a mash fat, for 6s. 10d., a wort fat for 2s., a 'Gilleding' tub for 2s. 6d., and two tunning barrels at 8d. each, a leaden boiler for 24s., another for 12s., and a great copper beer pot for 13s. 4d.
- (obsolete) A dry measure, generally equal to nine bushels.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
vat — see vat
See also
- fat choy (etymologically unrelated)
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