fat

Meaning

1. Carrying more fat than usual on one's body; plump; not lean or thin.
2. Thick; large.
3. Bulbous; rotund.
4. Bountiful.
5. Oily; greasy; unctuous; rich (said of food).
6. (obsolete) Exhibiting the qualities of a fat animal; coarse; heavy; gross; dull; stupid.
7. Fertile; productive.
8. Rich; producing a large income; desirable.
9. Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate.
10. Of a character which enables the compositor to make large wages; said of matter containing blank, cuts, or many leads, etc.
11. Being a shot in which the ground is struck before the ball.
12. Of a role: significant; major; meaty.
13. (slang) Being greatly or substantially such; real.
14. Carrying additional data or functionality.
15. Alternative form of phat

grease

corpulent

become fat

fatten out

fatty tissue

very fat

make fat

plump out

having a large belly

thick-set

grow large

well fed

be fat

fat woman

fats and oils

large person

heavy-bodied

well-nourished

be big

be stout

be chubby

be corpulent

be obese

be plump

grown fat

marrow of the felsh

consistent lubricant

deep strong heavy

horizontally challenged

animal oil

consistent grease

cooking fat

enormous

qui signifient grand

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/fæt/

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”).

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