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Etymology 1
From Middle English fatty, equivalent to fat + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian fattig (“fatty”), Dutch vettig (“fatty, greasy”), German Low German fettig (“fatty”), German fettig (“fatty”).
Adjective
fatty (comparative fattier, superlative fattiest)
- Containing, composed of, or consisting of fat.
fatty tissues
fatty meats
1896, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “Chapter 14”, in The Island of Doctor Moreau (Heinemann’s Colonial Library of Popular Fiction; 52), London: William Heinemann, →OCLC; republished as The Island of Doctor Moreau: A Possibility, New York, N.Y.: Stone & Kimball, 1896, →OCLC:Then in the case of excisions you have all kinds of secondary changes, pigmentary disturbances, modifications of the passions, alterations in the secretion of fatty tissue.
- Sometimes, especially, containing excess fat.
- Synonym: steatotic
fatty liver
fatty pancreas
- Like fat; greasy.
- Synonym: fatlike
- Of or related to fat.
fatty acid
fatty alcohol
- (slang) Literally or figuratively large.
2007, getting rid of weed smell tips:Be careful of the taxi drivers out there though, I've heard they sell you drugs, drop you off at your hotel and then dob you in to the Thai Police to get a fatty reward!
2007, A. Bryant, Disappointment to Say the Least:Instead of going my normal route (ordering the book through the store, checking it out in person, and then ordering it online so I could get a fatty discount) I impulsively bought the book.
- 2007, Rimma
- I'm trying to get a fatty project done in a couple of hours right now.
Etymology 2
From fat + -y (diminutive suffix).
Noun
fatty (plural fatties)
- (derogatory, slang) An obese person.
It's hardly surprising, when it has to support that enormous gut! Lose some weight, fatty!
- (slang) A large marijuana cigar; a blunt.
2004, Anthony Kiedis, Larry Sloman, Scar Tissue:We went to Plaster Creek, smoked a fattie, and emerged doing somersaults and cartwheels and laughing.
- A type of game played with marbles.
Translations
fat person
- Afrikaans: vetsak
- Armenian: չաղո (čʻaġo)
- Burmese: ဖတ်တီး (my) (hpatti:)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: (young male) 肥仔 (fei4 zai2), (young female) 肥妹 (fei4 mui1), (male) 肥佬 (fei4 lou2), (female) 肥婆 (fei4 po4)
- Mandarin: 胖子 (zh) (pàngzi)
- Czech: tlouštík m, tlusťoch (cs) m
- Dutch: vetzak (nl) m
- Esperanto: dikulo, grasulo
- Finnish: läski (fi), punkero (fi), pullukka (fi)
- Galician: gordecho
- German: Fettsack (de) m, Fettwanst (de) m
- Alemannic German: Bunse f (female)
- Japanese: ふとっちょ (futotcho)
- Macedonian: дебелко m (debelko), свинче n (svinče)
- Polish: beka (pl) f, baleron (pl) m, baryła f, baryłka (pl) f
- Portuguese: gordo (pt) m
- Romanian: grăsan (ro) m, grăsană f
- Russian: толстя́к (ru) m (tolstják), толсту́шка (ru) f (tolstúška)
- Spanish: gordito m, guatoncito m
- Swedish: fetknopp (sv) c, fetto (sv) n, tjockis (sv) c, tjocksmock (sv) c, rulta (sv) c
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