thunder thighs
English edit
Etymology edit
From the idea of a heavy person making thunderous noise while walking. Cellulite or stretch marks may resemble lightning bolts.
Noun edit
thunder thighs pl (plural only)
- (often derogatory) Fat thighs or thighs of great cellulite or stretch marks.
- 2014, Olivia Goldsmith, Flavor of the Month, Diversion Publishing Corp., →ISBN:
- How much art and science would it take to sculpt her formless putty into a classically chiseled profile, to raise her pendulous breasts, thin her thunder thighs, flatten her wattled stomach, remake her into the image that men called beautiful?
- 2015, Mary B. Morrison, If I Can't Have You, Kensington Books, →ISBN:
- The bulging biceps were exposed and his thunder thighs showed through his fitted black slacks; it made me want to touch him all over to see if he was real.
Noun edit
- (often derogatory) A person, usually a woman, with fat thighs.
- 2011, Camille Noe Pagan, The Art of Forgetting: A Novel, Penguin, →ISBN:
- I just got schooled by a fifth grader, I think in amazement as the four-foot-nothing fireball jogs down the court, arms akimbo, stomach heaving up and down. “Ha-ha, there goes thunder thighs!”
- 2015 January 6, Chris Hallbeck, “Donuts”, in Maximumble[1] (comic):
- Whoa Scott, you really shouldn't be eating Janet's donuts!
Haha, don't worry, miss "thunder thighs" could do without the extra--
Synonyms edit
- See also Thesaurus:fat person
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