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fatty, a. and n.|ˈfætɪ|
[f. fat + -y1.]
A. adj.
1. a. Resembling fat, of the nature of fat, unctuous, oleaginous, greasy.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvi. lxxiv. (1495) 577 Yf a stone is not fatty it woll all to fall by maystry of drynesse. 1563Fulke Meteors (1640) 64 b, These liquors concreat, that be moist and not fatty. 1616Surflet & Markh. Country Farme 548 The bread vvhich is made thereof is..fattie, slymie, heauie. 1731Arbuthnot Aliments vi. 194 Spirit of Nitre will turn Oil of Olives into a sort of fatty Substance. 1851Carpenter Man. Phys. (ed. 2) 160 The fatty matters must be received back into the blood. 1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. III. 398 The fatty ink employed.
†b. Besmeared with fat; greasy. Obs. rare—1.
1572Huloet (ed. Higgins) s.v. Fat, The boye handled the pot with his fatty [vnctis] fistes.
†2. Of animals, their limbs: Full of fat, plump, well-fed. Of a leaf: Full of sap; juicy. Obs.
1552Huloet, Fatte or Fattye, adeps. 1589Fleming Virg. Bucol. vi. 16 A shepheard it behooues To feed his fattie sheepe. 1601Holland Pliny II. 216 The leaues be whiter and fattier.
3. Full of fertilizing matter. Of soil: Fat, rich.
1590Spenser F.Q. i. i. 21 As when old father Nilus gins to swell..His fattie waves doe fertile slime outwell. 1855Singleton Virgil I. 113 For fatty lands These fit, for lighter those.
4. Consisting of or containing fat; adipose.
1615Crooke Body of Man vi. v. 353 The fatty veine called Adiposa. 1804Abernethy Surg. Obs. 30, I have known several fatty tumours growing at the same time. 1861Hume tr. Moquin-Tandon ii. i. 41 The Fatty or Adipose Tissue consists of vesicles..filled with an oily fluid. 1884Syd. Soc. Lex., Fatty ligament, a synonym of the Mucous ligament of the knee-joint. Fatty membrane, the subcutaneous areolar tissue which contains the fat. A Fatty tumour is a mass of soft yellow fat, generally enclosed in a..thin fibrous capsule.
5. Marked by morbid deposition of fat, tending to the production of fat, esp. in fatty degeneration (see quot.) fatty heart or fatty kidney = fatty degeneration of the heart or kidney.
1866A. Flint Princ. Med. (1880) 55 In fatty infiltration of a cell, the protoplasm is displaced by the fat. 1877Roberts Handbk. Med. (ed. 3) II. 51 Fatty Degeneration is sometimes a part of a general tendency to fatty changes. 1884Syd. Soc. Lex., Fatty degeneration, that condition in which a part or the whole of any tissue or organ is replaced by fat. 1886Pall Mall G. 16 Aug. 14/1 He..dies within a few years from inertia or fatty heart.
6. fatty oil: = fixed oil. fatty acid; fatty acid series: see quot. fatty series: the open-chain group of carbon compounds; the aliphatic series.
1831J. Davies Manual Mat. Med. 364 Catapucia Oil..a fatty oil, extracted from the seeds of the Euphorbia lathyris, Lin. 1863–72Watts Dict. Chem. I. 616 Fatty acids or Soap acids. 1868Hoblyn Dict. Terms Med. (ed. 9), Fatty Acids, a group of acids extracted from fats and fixed oils in the process of saponification. The fatty acid series is a term synonymous with the acetic series of acids. 1872Jrnl. Chem. Soc. XXV. 682 A method of forming the nitro-compounds of the fatty series. 1878Huxley Physiogr. 119 Its fatty acids form insoluble salts with the lime. 1926H. G. Rule tr. Schmidt's Textbk. Org. Chem. i. 69 The numerous compounds classified under this title [sc. aliphatic or fatty compounds] may be regarded as derived from the hydrocarbon methane... Since the common animal and vegetable fats similarly fall under this heading, the whole series is frequently known as the aliphatic or fatty series.
B. n. A fat person: esp. as a nickname.
1797B. Wynne Diary 3 Mar. (1937) II. x. 170 His wife is a poor miserable thing, the daughter a good looking fatty. 1882R. Richardson Trav. Medit. II. xix. 266 Well-built fatties, with double mouldings in the neck and chin. 1891Farmer Slang, Fatty, a jocular epithet for a fat man; a comic endearment for a fat woman. 1919Holiday Ann. 1920 120/1 Fatty Wynn was busy... Arthur Augustus..wondered whether Fatty, engrossed by the cake, would think of looking out on the platform. 1960V. Nabokov Invitation to Beheading x. 101 Cincinnatus..followed every step of the nimble fatty. 1971Petticoat 17 July 32/1 Success stories connected with slimming are few and far between, so any fatties who might be reading this—take note of this tale! |