fat
Translingual Edit
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fat
English Edit
Pronunciation Edit
Etymology 1 Edit
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 Edit
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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, 6th edition, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] J[ames] Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1727, →OCLC:, "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
- 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 Edit
- (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 Edit
Derived terms Edit
- a fat lot
- big fat, big-fat
- fat acceptance
- fat and happy
- fat arrow
- fat as a fool
- fat as a house
- fat as a pig
- fat-ass
- fat-assed
- fat ball
- fat bike, fatbike
- fat body
- fat-buttocked
- fat cat
- fat catshark
- fat cell
- fat city
- fat client
- fat comma
- fat day
- fat dormouse
- fat fantasy
- fat farm
- fat fetishism
- fat finger
- fat-finger
- fat-fingered
- fat fuck
- fat henfat knot
- fat-kidneyed
- fat lava
- fat link
- fat lip
- fat lot of good
- fat lute
- fatness
- fat pants
- fat quarter
- fat rascal
- fat-shame
- fat-shaming
- fat shaming
- fat sleeper
- fat suit
- fat tail
- fat-tail
- fat-tailed
- fat-tailed dwarf lemur
- fat-tailed sheepit ain't over till the fat lady sings
- fat tax
- fatty
- it ain't over 'til the fat lady sings
- it ain't over until the fat lady sings
- it isn't over till the fat lady sings
- it isn't over 'til the fat lady sings
- it isn't over until 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 Edit
- Sranan Tongo: fatu
Translations Edit
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Noun Edit
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 Edit
- (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 Edit
- animal fat
- baby fat
- beige fat
- body fat
- brown fat
- butterfat
- butterfat
- caul fat
- chew the fat
- crack a 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
- trans fat
- unsaturated fat
- vegetable fat
- white fat
- wool fat
- yellow fat disease
Descendants Edit
- Sranan Tongo: fatu
Translations Edit
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Verb Edit
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[1], 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.”
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Etymology 2 Edit
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 Edit
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.
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- fat choy (etymologically unrelated)
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Albanian Edit
Etymology Edit
Borrowed from Latin fātum.[1]. Jolk claims a derivation from Gothic fadi-[2]
Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
fat m (plural fate, definite fat, definite plural fatet)
Declension Edit
References Edit
- ^ Schumacher, Stefan; Matzinger, Joachim (2013) Die Verben des Altalbanischen: Belegwörterbuch, Vorgeschichte und Etymologie (Albanische Forschungen; 33) (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 211
- ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998), “fat”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden; Boston; Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 94
Buli (Indonesia) Edit
Etymology Edit
From Proto-Halmahera-Cenderawasih *pat, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *pat, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.
Numeral Edit
fat
Catalan Edit
Pronunciation Edit
Etymology 1 Edit
Noun Edit
fat m (uncountable)
Related terms Edit
Etymology 2 Edit
Adjective Edit
fat (feminine fada, masculine plural fats, feminine plural fades)
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Further reading Edit
- “fat” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Chuukese Edit
Adjective Edit
fat
Dutch Edit
Etymology Edit
Borrowed from French fat (“conceited; dandy”), from Latin fatuus.
Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
fat m (plural fatten or fats, diminutive fatje n)
- dandy, a man obsessed with his looks
- Synonyms: dandy, pronker, saletjonker
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French Edit
Etymology Edit
From Old Occitan fat, from Latin fatuus.
Pronunciation Edit
Adjective Edit
fat (feminine fate, masculine plural fats, feminine plural fates)
Further reading Edit
- “fat”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams Edit
Friulian Edit
Etymology 1 Edit
Verb Edit
fat
- past participle of fâ
Adjective Edit
fat
Etymology 2 Edit
Noun Edit
fat m (plural fats)
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Hausa Edit
Pronunciation Edit
Ideophone Edit
fat
- bright white
Icelandic Edit
Etymology Edit
From Old Norse fat, from Proto-Germanic *fatą, from Proto-Indo-European *pod-.
Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
fat n (genitive singular fats, nominative plural föt)
Declension Edit
Kowiai Edit
Etymology Edit
From Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.
Numeral Edit
fat
Ladin Edit
Noun Edit
fat m (plural fac)
Derived terms Edit
Adjective Edit
fat m (feminine singular fata, masculine plural fats, feminine plural fates)
Middle English Edit
Etymology 1 Edit
From Old English fæt, from Proto-West Germanic *fat, from Proto-Germanic *fatą.
Alternative forms Edit
Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
Descendants Edit
References Edit
- “fā̆t, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2 Edit
From Old English fǣtt, from Proto-West Germanic *faitid.
Alternative forms Edit
Pronunciation Edit
Adjective Edit
fat
Descendants Edit
References Edit
- “fā̆t, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Norwegian Bokmål Edit
Etymology Edit
Noun Edit
fat n (definite singular fatet, indefinite plural fat or fater, definite plural fata or fatene)
Derived terms Edit
References Edit
- “fat” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk Edit
Pronunciation Edit
Etymology 1 Edit
From Old Norse fat, Proto-Germanic *fatą.
Noun Edit
fat n (definite singular fatet, indefinite plural fat, definite plural fata)
Derived terms Edit
Etymology 2 Edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb Edit
fat
- imperative of fata
References Edit
- “fat” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Frisian Edit
Etymology Edit
From Proto-West Germanic *fait. Cognates include Old Saxon *fēt and Old Norse feitr.
Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
fat m
Descendants Edit
- Saterland Frisian: Fat
References Edit
- Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 28
Old Saxon Edit
Etymology Edit
From Proto-Germanic *fatą.
Noun Edit
fat n
Declension Edit
singular | plural | |
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nominative | fat | fatu |
accusative | fat | fatu |
genitive | fates | fatō |
dative | fate | fatum |
instrumental | — | — |
Romagnol Edit
Verb Edit
fat
- past participle of fêr (“to do”)
Saterland Frisian Edit
Etymology Edit
From Old Frisian fatt, from Proto-West Germanic *faitid. Cognates include West Frisian fet and German fett.
Pronunciation Edit
Adjective Edit
fat (masculine fatten, feminine, plural or definite fatte, comparative fatter, superlative fatst)
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Slavomolisano Edit
Etymology Edit
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Noun Edit
fat m
- story
- 2010, Rino John Gliosca, Bonifacio en Amérique:
- Drugi fat ka vami hočam povidat je do jenga čeljada ka sa zovaša Bonifač.
- Another story that I want to tell you is about a person who was called Bonifacio.
Declension Edit
References Edit
- Breu, W., Mader Skender, M. B. & Piccoli, G. 2013. Oral texts in Molise Slavic (Italy): Acquaviva Collecroce. In Adamou, E., Breu, W., Drettas, G. & Scholze, L. (eds.). 2013. EuroSlav2010: Elektronische Datenbank bedrohter slavischer Varietäten in nichtslavophonen Ländern Europas – Base de données électronique de variétés slaves menacées dans des pays européens non slavophones. Konstanz: Universität / Paris: Lacito (Internet Publication).
Swedish Edit
Etymology Edit
From Old Norse fat, from Proto-Germanic *fatą, from Proto-Indo-European *pod-.
Pronunciation Edit
Audio (file)
Noun Edit
fat n
- saucer; a small dish
- plate, platter (for serving food rather than eating from)
- barrel (oil or wine), cask, keg (beer)
- barrel; a unit of volume, usually referring to the oil barrel of 158.9873 liters
Declension Edit
Declension of fat | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | fat | fatet | fat | faten |
Genitive | fats | fatets | fats | fatens |
Derived terms Edit
- (saucer): tefat
- (serving dish): serveringsfat, kakfat
- (barrel; container): fatöl
Idioms Edit
- ha någons huvud på ett fat (“have someone's head on a platter”)
- det ligger någon i fatet (“it's in someone's plate”) (about something that is, or is by others perceived as, an obstacle (physical or mental) to someone)
References Edit
Tày Edit
Pronunciation Edit
- (Thạch An – Tràng Định) IPA(key): [faːt̚˧˥]
- (Trùng Khánh) IPA(key): [faːt̚˦]
Etymology 1 Edit
Adjective Edit
fat
Etymology 2 Edit
Verb Edit
fat
References Edit
- Hoàng Văn Ma; Lục Văn Pảo; Hoàng Chí (2006) Từ điển Tày-Nùng-Việt [Tay-Nung-Vietnamese dictionary] (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Từ điển Bách khoa Hà Nội
Tboli Edit
Etymology Edit
From Proto-Philippine *əpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.
Numeral Edit
fat
Volapük Edit
Etymology Edit
From German Vater or English father.
Pronunciation Edit
Noun Edit
fat (nominative plural fats)
Declension Edit
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Wolof Edit
Verb Edit
fat
- to shelter
References Edit
Omar Ka (2018) Nanu Dégg Wolof, National African Language Resource Center, →ISBN, page 19
Yamdena Edit
Alternative forms Edit
Etymology Edit
From Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.
Numeral Edit
fat