fat
noun
[ fat ]
• a natural oily substance occurring in animal bodies, especially when deposited as a layer under the skin or around certain organs.
• "whales and seals insulate themselves with layers of fat"
Similar:
fatty tissue,
fat cells,
blubber,
adipose tissue,
• any of a group of natural esters of glycerol and various fatty acids, which are solid at room temperature and are the main constituents of animal and vegetable fat.
• "some 40 per cent of our daily calories are derived from dietary fats"
fat
adjective
• (of a person or animal) having a large amount of excess flesh.
• "the driver was a fat wheezing man"
Similar:
plump,
stout,
overweight,
heavy,
large,
solid,
chubby,
portly,
rotund,
flabby,
paunchy,
pot-bellied,
beer-bellied,
dumpy,
meaty,
broad in the beam,
of ample proportions,
Falstaffian,
buxom,
obese,
morbidly obese,
corpulent,
bloated,
gross,
gargantuan,
elephantine,
fleshy,
tubby,
roly-poly,
beefy,
porky,
blubbery,
poddy,
chunky,
well padded,
well covered,
well upholstered,
podgy,
fubsy,
lard-arsed,
sonsy,
pursy,
abdominous,
• large in bulk or circumference.
• "a fat cigarette"
fat
verb
• make or become fat.
• "numbers of black cattle are fatted here"
Origin:
Old English fǣtt ‘well fed, plump’, also ‘fatty, oily’, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch vet and German feist .
