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fat - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The ester of glycerol and one, two, or three fatty acids.
- noun Any of various soft, solid, or semisolid organic compounds constituting the esters of glycerol and fatty acids and their associated organic groups.
- noun A mixture of such compounds occurring widely in organic tissue, especially in the adipose tissue of animals and in the seeds, nuts, and fruits of plants.
- noun Animal tissue containing such substances.
- noun A solidified animal or vegetable oil.
- noun Obesity; corpulence.
- noun Unnecessary excess.
- adjective Having much or too much fat or flesh; plump or obese.
- adjective Full of fat or oil; greasy.
- adjective Abounding in desirable elements.
- adjective Fertile or productive; rich.
- adjective Having an abundance or amplitude; well-stocked.
- adjective Yielding profit or plenty; lucrative or rewarding.
- adjective Prosperous; wealthy.
- adjective Thick; large.
- adjective Puffed up; swollen.
- transitive & intransitive verb To make or become fat; fatten.
- idiom (a fat lot) Very little or none at all.
- idiom (fat chance) Very little or no chance.
- idiom (the fat is in the fire) Bad consequences are sure to follow; trouble lies ahead.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A large open vessel for water, wine, or other liquids; a tub; a cistern: now usually vat (which see).
- noun A dry measure, generally equal to 9 bushels.
- Having much flesh other than muscle; having an unusual amount of flesh; corpulent; obese: as, a fat man; a fat ox.
- Containing the substance called fat (see II.); containing or consisting of fat, oil, or grease; oily; greasy; unctuous: as, a fat dish; fat cheese.
- Hence Containing much resin; resinous: as, fat pine.
- Containing much plastic or unctuous matter; pinguid: said of clay which is free from intermingled sand, and consequently highly plastic; or of lime made from limestone which contains but a small amount (ten per cent. or less) of the ordinary impurities of limestone — silica, alumina, oxid of iron, etc.
- Having or showing, in mind or movement, the qualities of a fat animal; heavy; dull; stupid.
- Well supplied with what is needful or desired; abounding in comforts; prosperous.
- Abundant in production, or yielding large profits; rich in results or yield; profitable.
- Nautical, broad, as the quarter of a ship.
- noun A white or yellowish oily solid substance forming the chief part of the adipose tissue of animals, and also found in plants.
- noun The best or richest part of a thing.
- noun In type-setting, work which for any reason is unusually profitable to the compositor. See
fat work , above. - To make fat; fatten.
- To become fat; grow fat.
- In leather-manuf, to smear over with a heavy oil.
- In painting, rich; full of color.
- noun A local Australian term for fat or marketable cattle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A large tub, cistern, or vessel; a vat.
- noun obsolete A measure of quantity, differing for different commodities.
- adjective Abounding with fat.
- adjective Fleshy; characterized by fatness; plump; corpulent; not lean.
- adjective Oily; greasy; unctuous; rich; -- said of food.
- adjective Exhibiting the qualities of a fat animal; coarse; heavy; gross; dull; stupid.
- adjective Fertile; productive
- adjective Rich; producing a large income; desirable
- adjective obsolete Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Middle English, from Old English fǣtt, fatted; see peiə- in Indo-European roots.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From Middle English, from Old English fæt ("vat, vessel, jar, cup, casket, division"), from Proto-Germanic *fatan (“vessel”), from Proto-Indo-European *pod- (“vessel”). Cognate with Dutch vat ("barrel, vessel"), German Fass ("barrel, drum"), Swedish fat ("barrel, dish, cask"). See vat.
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Examples
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Mutton fat so prepared is sometimes termed _savory fat_.
School and Home Cooking Carlotta Cherryholmes Greer
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Heat an iron frying pan until hot; oil it with a bit of fat from the meat; _then remove the fat_.
School and Home Cooking Carlotta Cherryholmes Greer
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Clean the meat, remove excess fat, and place the meat in a very hot frying pan _without any fat_.
School and Home Cooking Carlotta Cherryholmes Greer
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V. i.112 (241,5) [as fat and fulsome] [W: flat] _Fat_ means _dull_; so we say a _fatheaded_ fellow; _fat_ likewise means _gross_, and is sometimes used for _obscene_; and _fat_ is more congruent to _fulsome_ than _flat_.
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies Samuel Johnson 1746
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So – although I consider 12% fat close too ideal in terms of needed fat – up-too 25% is fine if it serves a purpose – an extra 300 calories of coconut – beans – peanut butter or olive oil – each one of these would provide an extra boost of value to a low-calorie diet and if the fat% reached 25% – it would be fine
The low-fat diet cascade | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2007
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The tonic bubbles and the lime, like the cucumber and mint, will refresh the palate, which has been encased in fat from the heavy cream.
Cucumber soup: impossible food-wine pairing?!? | Dr Vino's wine blog 2009
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However, because fat is the most concentrated source of calories, it is difficult to consume a high calorie diet that is low in fat and it is not recommended that children with AGS restrict fat.
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The word fat was swirling through my head, sounding the alarms.
Unbearable Lightness Portia de Rossi 2010
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When religious people gather, they bring Pyrex dishes full of handmade dishes invented back when the term fat-free didn't exist and the closest equivalent word was bland.
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When religious people gather, they bring Pyrex dishes full of handmade dishes invented back when the term fat-free didn't exist and the closest equivalent word was bland.
Alt Text: Science vs. Religion -- The Ultimate Smackdown 2008
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I am what many in the fat activism community call “small fat,” meaning I am technically larger than what society deems the acceptable body size, but I am not as fat as many others.
Why No One Noticed I Was Hungry - Rewire.News Rewire News Group Contributors 2020
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synonyms (403)
Words with the same meaning
- Boeotian
- Haliver Oil
- abounding
- abounding in riches
- abundant
- adipose
- adipose tissue
- advantageous
- affluent
- all-sufficing
- ample
- animal oil
- animal oils
- aplenty
- asinine
- balmy
- banausic
- become overweight
- bedizenment
- beef tallow
- beef-brained
- beef-witted
- beefy
- big
- big-bellied
- big-rich
- bloated
- blockish
- blocky
- blooming
- blossoming
- blown up
- blowzy
- blubber
- blubbery
- bone oil
- booming
- bosomy
- bottlenose oil
- bottomless
- bounteous
- bountiful
- bovine
- brawny
- breadwinning
- broad
- broad-bodied
- bulky
- bull
- bullnecked
- burly
- butter
- butterfat
- buttery
- butyraceous
- buxom
- cerate
- champion
- choice
- cholesterol
- chosen
- chrismal
- chrismatory
- chubby
- chumpish
- chunky
- clear
- cloddish
- coarse
- cod-liver oil
- comfortable
- consonant
- copious
- corpulent
- cowish
- crass
- cream
- deep
- dense
- desirable
- diffuse
- dilated
- disgustingly rich
- distended
- doegling oil
- doltish
- dripping
- drippings
- dropsical
- drying oil
- dull
- dullard
- dumb
- dumpy
- duncical
- duncish
- duplication
- duplication of effort
- edematous
- effuse
- elect
- elite
- embellishment
- enchymatous
- engross
- epidemic
- essential oil
- ester
- exhaustless
- expletive
- extravagance
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- fair
- fatten
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- fatty
- fatty oil
- featherbedding
- fertile
- filling
- fish oil
- fixed oil
- flatulent
- fleshy
- flourishing
- flower
- flowering
- flush
- fortunate
- frightfully rich
- frill
- frills
- frippery
- fruiting
- full
- full-bodied
- gain weight
- gainful
- galore
- gassy
- gather flesh
- generous
- ghee
- gingerbread
- glyceride
- going strong
- goose grease
- grease
- greasy
- great
- gross
- halcyon
- heavy
- heavyset
- heavyweight
- hefty
- hippy
- husky
- hydrogenated fat
- imposing
- in full swing
- in funds
- in good case
- in plenty
- in quantity
- in the money
- incrassate
- independent
- independently rich
- independently wealthy
- ineducable
- inexhaustible
- inflated
- klutzy
- lanolin
- lard
- lard oil
- lardaceous
- lardy
- lavish
- leaden
- liberal
- lipid
- lipin
- lipoid
- lipoma
- loaded
- lucrative
- lumber
- lumpish
- lusty
- luxuriant
- luxurious
- luxury
- made of money
- many
- margarine
- massive
- massy
- maximal
- meaty
- mineral oil
- moneyed
- moneymaking
- much
- mucoid
- mutton tallow
- needlessness
- negligible
- nonesuch
- nonpareil
- numerous
- oafish
- obese
- off
- oil
- oily
- oleaginous
- oleic
- oleo
- oleomargarine
- oleum
- oofy
- opaque
- optimum
- opulent
- ornamentation
- orotund
- outside
- overabundance
- overadornment
- overblown
- overflow
- overflowing
- overkill
- overlap
- overmuch
- overplus
- overweight
- padding
- palmy
- paragon
- paunchy
- paying
- payroll padding
- pick
- pinguefy
- piping
- plenitudinous
- plenteous
- plentiful
- plenty
- pleonasm
- plethora
- plethoric
- plump
- podgy
- polyunsaturated fat
- ponderous
- porpoise oil
- portly
- potbellied
- prevailing
- prevalent
- pride
- prime
- prize
- prodigal
- productive
- profitable
- profuse
- profusive
- prolixity
- prospering
- prosperous
- provided for
- pudgy
- puffed up
- puffy
- pug
- pugged
- pursy
- put on weight
- queen
- quintessence
- rampant
- redundance
- redundancy
- remunerative
- replete
- resounding
- retrousse
- rich
- rich as Croesus
- rife
- ringing
- riotous
- rolling in money
- roly-poly
- rosy
- rotund
- round
- running over
- seal oil
- seam
- sebaceous
- sebum
- select
- shortening
- sleek
- slender
- slick
- slight
- slim
- slippery
- small
- smooth
- snub-nosed
- soapy
- sonorous
- sottish
- spermaceti
- square
- squat
- squattish
- squatty
- stalwart
- steroid
- stocky
- stout
- strapping
- stubbed
- stubby
- stumpy
- stupid
- suet
- suety
- superabundant
- superfluity
- superfluousness
- superlative
- surfeit
- surplus
- swelled
- swollen
- tallow
- tallowy
- tautology
- teeming
- the best
- the best ever
- the tops
- the very best
- thick
- thick-bodied
- thickset
- three-dimensional
- thriving
- top
- top-heavy
- tubby
- tumid
- turgid
- turned-up
- unctuous
- unguent
- unguentary
- unguentous
- unnecessariness
- unsaturated fat
- unteachable
- vat
- vegetable oil
- ventose
- verbosity
- vibrant
- vigorous
- viscous
- volatile oil
- wallowing in wealth
- warm
- wealthy
- weighty
- well provided for
- well-fed
- well-fixed
- well-found
- well-furnished
- well-heeled
- well-off
- well-paying
- well-provided
- well-stocked
- well-to-do
- whale oil
- wholesale
- wide
- windy
- wool fat
- worthwhile
- wrongheaded
- yolk
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Other words for 'fat'
- abdominous
- adipose
- blubbery
- buttery
- buxom
- chubby
- corpulent
- double-chinned
- dumpy
- embonpoint
- fattish
- fatty series
- fleshy
- fruitful
- greasy
- gross
- heavy
- jowly
- loose-jowled
- obese
- oily
- oleaginous
- overweight
- paunchy
- plump
- podgy
- porcine
- portly
- pot-bellied
- profitable
- pudgy
- roly-poly
- rotund
- sebaceous
- stout
- suety
- superfatted
- thick
- tubby
- weighty
- zaftig
- zoftig
oroboros commented on the word fat
FAT - (noun), (verb) - a battle or combat; to engage in battle or combat.
Usage: "You younguns keep fat'n, n' ah'm gonna whup y'uh."
April 8, 2008
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