fatadj.n.²

Brit.

/fat/, U.S.

/fæt/

Forms: Old English fǽt(t, Middle English fet(t(e, southern vet(te, Middle English–1600s fatt(e, Middle English southern vat(te, (Middle English faat), Middle English– fat.

Etymology: Old English fǽtt, corresponding to Old Frisian fat, Middle Dutch, Dutch, Middle Low German vet (modern German fett adopted < Low German), Old High German feiz̧z̧it (Middle High German veiz̧et, veiz̧t, modern German feist) < Germanic *faitido-, past participle of *faitjan to fatten (Old High German veiz̧z̧en, Old Norse feita), < *faito- adjective, fat, represented by Old Saxon feit, Middle High German veiz̧, Old Norse feitr (Danish fed., Swedish fet); the existence of the primary adjective in Old English cannot be proved, as the form fæt in manuscripts is probably only a variant spelling of fǽtt.

A. adj.

I. With respect to bulk or condition.

1. Of an animal used for food: Fed up for slaughter, ready to kill, fatted.

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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > [adjective] > fattened

fatc1000

refetc1380

fedc1400

masteda1500

well-fatted1540

fatted1552

fattened1616

saginated1791

c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Luke (Corpus Cambr.) xv. 27 Þin fæder of-sloh an fæt [c1160 Hatton Gosp. fet] celf.

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. xxv. 6 A feste of fatte bestes.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 3643 O kyddes fatt þou fett me tuin.

c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) xvii. 179 Ȝif thei [the children] ben fatte, þei eten hem anon.

c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 351 Ful many a fat partrych hadde he in Muwe.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 151/2 Fat fowle, or beste, mestyde to be slayne, altile.

a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 38 Sethe a mawdelarde, þat fat is þenne, And cut in peses.

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Fatte by feading, as in a francke or penne, altilis.

1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 85 The Party..concluded, it was to see whether he or she was fattest and fittest to kill.

1849 Ld. Houghton Let. 17 Dec. in T. W. Reid Life Ld. Houghton (1890) I. x. 439 Fat beasts sold for the price they were bought lean.

1890 Daily News 21 Nov. 5/3 Animals which..have won prizes as ‘fat’, that is to say, as ripe for the butcher.

a. Of animals or human beings, their limbs, etc.: In well-fed condition, plump; well supplied with fat (see B.).

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the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > broad shape or physique > [adjective] > fat or plump

fatc893

frimOE

fullOE

overfatOE

greatOE

bald1297

roundc1300

encorsivea1340

fattishc1369

fleshyc1369

fleshlyc1374

repletea1398

largec1405

corsious1430

corpulentc1440

corsyc1440

fulsome1447

portlyc1487

corporate1509

foggy fata1529

corsive1530

foggish?1537

plump1545

fatty1552

fleshful1552

pubble1566

plum1570

pursy1576

well-fleshed1576

gross?1577

fog1582

forfatted1586

gulchy1598

bouksome1600

fat-fed1607

meatified1607

chuff1609

plumpya1616

bloat1638

blowze-like1647

obese1651

jollya1661

bloated1664

chubbed1674

pluffya1689

puffya1689

pussy1688

sappy1694

crummy1718

chubby1722

fodgel1724

well-padded1737

beefy1743

plumpish1753

pudsy1754

rotund1762

portable1770

lusty1777

roundabout1787

well-cushioned1802

plenitudinous1803

stout1804

embonpointc1806

roly-poly1808

adipose1810

roll-about1815

foggy1817

poddy1823

porky1828

hide-blown1834

tubby1835

stoutish1836

tubbish1836

superfatted1841

pottle-bodied1842

pincushiony1851

opulent1882

well-covered1884

well-upholstered1886

butterball1888

endomorphic1888

tisty-tosty1888

pachyntic1890

barrel-bodied1894

overweight1899

pussy-gutted1906

upholstered1924

the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [adjective] > fed or nourished > well fed or nourished

fatc893

well-nourishedc1300

full-feedinga1382

well-feda1398

feasted1440

well-nurturedc1450

home-fed1573

corn-fed1576

stall-fed1589

repleted1592

well-feasted1611

high-fed1612

succulent1673

corn-fed1787

c893 tr. Orosius Hist. iv. xiii. §5 Ge sindon nu utan fætte & innan hlæne.

a1000 Deut. xxxi. 20 & þonne hig etaþ & fulle beoþ & fætte.

c1175 Lamb. Hom. 81 [He] luueð his sunnen alse deð þet fette swin þet fule fen to liggen in.

c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 72 Hit regibeð anan ase feat meare & idel.

1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 429 Ballede he was, & þycke of breste, of body vat also.

1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. x. 208 Faitours in frere cloþynge hadde fatte chekus.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 4566 Þe seuen of þaim..were selcuth fat and fair ky.

a1500 (?c1450) Merlin xiv. 227 Her flessh whitter than snowe, and was not to fatte ne to sklender.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) v. v. 13 A Windsor Stagge, and the fattest (I thinke) i'th Forrest.

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §899 The Beare, the Hedge-hog..wax Fat when they Sleepe.

1668 W. Davenant Man's the Master ii. i The chief reason why I am not fat is..because I am in love with three of our neighbours' maids.

1731 J. Arbuthnot Ess. Nature Aliments vi. 88 You may see in an Army forty thousand Foot-Soldiers without a fat Man.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth V. 45 Their bodies are fat and muscular.

1864 Princess Alice in Mem. (1884) 78 My fat Baby..is a great darling.

1883 J. Gilmour Among Mongols viii. 101 The Mongols like to be careful of their camels, even when they are fat and strong.

absolute.c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 9702 No durste þær bilæuen na þæ uatte no þe læne.

b. In unfavourable sense: Overcharged with fat, corpulent, obese.

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the world > action or operation > prosperity > [adjective] > having good, natural, or material resources > having plentiful resources or abundance

fatOE

broadOE

plentyc1425

OE Riddle 40 105 Mara ic eom ond fættra þonne amæsted swin.

c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. (MS. B) 5 Of seknesse of a wommans tetys to grete to fatte oþere to lene.

1494 R. Fabyan New Chron. Eng. vi. clviii. 147 Bernulphus knyghtes were fatte, corpolent, and shorte breth.

c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 3068 A necke..nawþer fulsom, ne fat, but fetis & round.

1602 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor iv. v. 22 There was a fat woman with me.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iv. x. 204 They are generally fat..and ranck of the savours which attend upon sluttish corpulency.

1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1783 II. 450 Talking of a man who was grown very fat, so as to be incommoded with corpulency.

1856 J. W. Carlyle Lett. II. 294 So fat a man one rarely sees.

c. figurative.

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the world > action or operation > prosperity > [adjective] > in easy circumstances

fat1526

bean-fed1889

sitting pretty1915

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. MMMvi^v He is fat of my benefytes and good dedes.

1558 Bp. T. Watson Holsome Doctr. Seuen Sacramentes i. f. i^v By the sacrament..we are nourished to euerlasting lyfe, and made fat with God.

1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iii. ii. 180 Aduantage feedes him fat while men delay.

1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice i. iii. 45 I will feede fat the auncient grudge I beare him.

1611 Bible (King James) Prov. xi. 25.

1620 T. May Heir i. i, in W. C. Hazlitt Dodsley's Sel. Coll. Old Eng. Plays (1875) XI. 515 'Twill feed me fat with sport, that it shall make.

d. figurative in vulgar phrase to cut up fat: see to cut up 11 at cut v. Phrasal verbs.

e. Of larger size than is usual; large in comparison with others of the same species.

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the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [adjective] > distinguishing objects of the same kind

large1688

fat1877

1877 Encycl. Brit. VII. 368/2 The Fat Dormouse (Myoxus glis) is larger than the British species.

1877 Gardeners' Chron. 30 June 8/3 Nuts well supplied with flesh, or what is technically called ‘fat nuts’.

f. fat herring n. = mattie n.

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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > fish > herring

herringa700

white herring1469

meat herring1668

mattie1721

trash1749

Glasgow magistrate1833

crown fulls1854

full1854

fat herring1863

matjes herring1939

the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > subclass Actinopterygii > order Clupeiformes > [noun] > family Clupeidae and herrings > member of > in good condition

mattie1721

fat herring1863

1863 Rep. Commiss. Herring-trawling Scotl. §51. 26 The herring is found under four different conditions: 1st, Fry or Sill; 2d, Maties or Fat Herring; 3d, Full Herring; 4th, Shotten or Spent Herring.

1883 F. M. Wallem Fish Supply Norway 15 The Norwegian fat herring is considered to be the very best herring in the world.

1967 Oceanogr. & Marine Biol. 5 436 The ‘fat’ herring fishery, exploiting one-to-four-year-old, adolescent fish.

a. transferred. Of things: Thick, full-bodied, substantial; spec. of printing types. Also †to beat fat (Typog.): see quot. 1683. †Of the voice: Full.

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the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > thickness > [adjective] > thick

thickc888

fata1325

tun-greatc1405

crassy1630

junky1825

the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [adjective] > of large volume or bulky > and solid

greateOE

stour?a1300

fata1325

mightyc1375

sternc1394

stiffc1400

massivec1425

mastiff1495

gross1516

massy1548

robustious1548

mountainousa1616

monumental1632

mountain1633

lusty1640

beamy1697

material1736

Himalayan1878

wodgy1907

monolith1922

society > communication > printing > types, blocks, or plates > relating to type > [adjective] > thick, full-bodied type

black-faced1827

fat1841

a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2104 .vii. eares wexen fette of coren.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. cxxxi. 1388 Þe voices beþ fatte and þikke whan moche spirit comeþ oute, as þe voice of a man.

1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball ii. xlii. 200 The white lillie his leaues be..somewhat thicke or fat.

1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 i. ii. 126 There are..traders riding to London with fat purses.

1676 J. Moxon Regulæ Trium Ordinum 5 The..Draughts of the Letters will shew him what parts of a Letter must be fat or lean.

1676 J. Moxon Regulæ Trium Ordinum 7 The Stem or Broad stroke in a Letter is called the Fat stroke.

1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. Dict. 369 Beat Fat, If a Press-man Takes too much Inck with his Balls, he Beats Fat. The Black English Faced Letter is generally Beaten Fat.

1787 G. Winter New Syst. Husbandry 247 The leaves of the seeds..appeared twice as fat or thick.

1841 W. Savage Dict. Art of Printing Fat Face or Fat Letter is a letter with a broad stem.

1867 G. P. Marsh in Nation 3 Jan. The substitution of full-faced—I have heard it called fat by printers..small letter for capitals.

b. Nautical (see quot. 1704).

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1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. ii. 4 If it [sc. the Tuck] lie too low it makes her haue a fat quarter.

1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I. (at cited word) If the Trussing in, or Tuck of a Ships Quarter under Water, be deep: They say she hath a Fat Quarter.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. (at cited word)

c. Of a spark.

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1902 J. E. Hutton in A. C. Harmsworth et al. Motors & Motor-driving (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) viii. 162 The magneto machine itself seems, and is, inexhaustible... It also gives a fine ‘fat’ spark, which adds to the efficiency of the explosion.

II. With respect to the component parts.

a. Containing much fat, oil, etc.; consisting of fat, greasy, oily, unctuous. to cut it (too) fat: lit. referring to a slice of meat, figurative (vulgar) to make a display. See cut v. 8b.

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the world > matter > constitution of matter > oiliness or greasiness > [adjective] > fatty or greasy

fatc1000

fattya1398

tallowyc1440

seamya1529

tallowish1552

smeary1582

fattish1589

greasy1592

pinguedinous1599

enseamed1604

pingui-substance1621

pinguid1635

axungious1658

pinguious1705

sevous1726

suety1730

sebaceous1783

pinguitudinous1827

crassy1858

the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > make ostentatious display or show off [verb (intransitive)]

brandishc1340

ruffle1484

braga1556

swash1556

flourish1563

flaunt1566

prank1567

prink1573

to shake, wag the feather1581

peacockize1598

air1605

display1608

to launch it out1608

flasha1616

to cut it out1619

flare1633

vapour1652

peacock1654

spark1676

to gallantrize it1693

bosh1709

glare1712

to cut a bosh1726

to show away1728

to figure away, off1749

parade1749

to cut a dashc1771

dash1786

to cut up1787

to cut a flash1795

to make, or cut, a splash1804

swank1809

to come out strong1825

to cut a spludge1831

to cut it (too) fat1836

pavonize1838

splurge1844

to do the grand1847

to cut a swath1848

to cut a splurge1860

to fan out1860

spread1860

skyre1871

fluster1876

to strut one's stuff1926

showboat1937

floss1938

style1968

society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > moral or spiritual impurity > indecency > [adjective] > lewd, bawdy, or obscene

lewdc1386

filthy?c1400

knavishc1405

sensual?a1425

ribaldousc1440

dishonestc1450

bawdya1513

ribald?a1513

ribaldious?1518

slovenly?1518

ribaldry1519

priapish1531

ribaldish?1533

filthous1551

ribaldly1570

obscene1571

bawdisha1586

obscenous1591

greasy1598

dirty1599

fulsome1600

spurcitious1658

lasciviating1660

smutty1668

bawdry1764

ribaldric1796

un-Quakerlike1824

fat1836

ithyphallic1856

hot1892

rorty1898

rude1919

bitchy1928

feelthy1930

raunchy1943

ranchy1959

down and dirty1969

steamy1970

sleazo1972

c1000 Ags. Ps. lxxx. 15 [lxxxi. 16] He hi fedde mid fætre lynde, hwæte and hunige.

c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 995 Bræd..smeredd wel wiþ ele sæw & makedd fatt & nesshe.

1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xii. 264 Þe larke..of flesch, by fele folde fatter and swetter.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 159/1 Fet, or fatte, as flesshe and oþer lyke, pinguis.

1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 147 Fatte and newe milke.

1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 Epil. 25 If you bee not too much cloyd with fatte meate.

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 427 It shalbe needfull..to vse some fat broth.

1638 W. Rawley tr. F. Bacon Hist. Nat. & Exper. Life & Death 41 Mixed with Tallow, or any Fat Thing.

1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 201 The Milk..is so fat, that it makes a Cream two fingers thick.

1701 J. Addison Let. from Italy 134 The fat Olive.

1824 L. L. Cameron Hist. Marten & Two Little Scholars (new ed.) vii. 43 This nice fat cheese which brother gave me.

1836 W. Irving Astoria II. 205 Which he began to relish, pronouncing them ‘fat and tender’.

1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. I. 143 Promenading about..with surprising dignity (or as the gentleman in the next box facetiously observes, ‘cutting it uncommon fat!’).

1842 Comic Almanac 49 A goose, even tailors have, who cut it fat.

†b. transferred. Of figs: Full of juice, juicy. Obsolete.

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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > fig > [adjective] > juicy

fat1398

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [adjective] > of or resembling tropical fruits > of or like a fig

fikec975

fat1398

ficoid1884

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) v. xv. 121 Leues of trees in whyche is fatte humour fallith not.

c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 212 Medle þerwiþ fatte figis.

1656 J. Smith Compl. Pract. Physick 292 Take fat Figs 12 oz.

c. Of an actor's part, offering abundant opportunity for skill, display, etc.; of speeches, etc., impressive, effective.

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > part or character > [adjective] > types of part or character

protatic1658

fat1758

melpomenish1801

heavy1814

starring1833

Polonian1847

supporting1863

Polonial1872

actor-proof1893

Ophelian1903

1758 W. Toldervy Hist. Two Orphans III. 157 He..sings as many fat songs as the best man in the Garden.

1901 C. Morris Life on Stage xix. 139 What is vulgarly known to-day as a ‘fat’ part, ‘fat’ meaning lines sure to provoke applause.

1910 P. G. Wodehouse Gentleman of Leisure xv. 158 True acting part, the biggest in the piece, full of fat lines.

d. Of wood: Resinous (U.S.); also †of amber. Of coal: Bituminous.

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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > other vegetable materials > plant resin > [adjective] > containing or yielding resin

resinaceous1664

resiniferous1675

rosinaceous1675

fat1697

resino-vitreous1811

the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > hydrocarbon minerals > [adjective] > coal > bituminous or sub-bituminous

fat1831

sub-bituminous1835

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals viii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 77 Fat Amber let the Tamarisk distil.

1831 J. Macculloch Syst. Geol. II. xliv. 356 A resinous plant such as fir..would produce a fatter coal than an oak, because the resin itself is converted into bitumen.

1836 C. P. Traill Backwoods of Canada 234 The resinous substance called fat-pine being usually found in places where the living pine is least abundant.

1856 F. L. Olmsted Journey Slave States 335 The room was filled with smoke of the fat light-wood.

1877 R. I. Dodge Hunting Grounds Great West xxxvi. 393 They [the Indians] procured some ‘fat’ pine knots.

1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining Fat Coals, those which contain volatile, oily matters.

5. Of mould, clay, etc.: containing much soluble or plastic matter; having a ‘greasy’ feeling to the touch; sticky. Of limestone: containing much lime, and few impurities; (hence) pure. Of quicklime: nearly pure, and therefore slaking easily.

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the world > the earth > minerals > [adjective] > sticky or containing much soluble matter

fatc1503

the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > attachment > [adjective] > attached by something adhesive > having adhesive quality

cleavingc1350

holdingc1400

withholdingc1430

fatc1503

gluing1572

adhering1592

viscous1605

tenacious1648

birdlimey1657

adhesive1661

agglutinating1664

sticky1688

clingy1708

adherescent1743

tacky1788

detainable1801

detentive1881

stickfast1888

stick-on1904

c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. lxiiij/1 Y^e erthe muste..be neyther too fat ne to grauelly.

1546 in State Papers Henry VIII (1852) XI. 335 The grounde of the countrey..is so fatte, that if it rayne there three dayes..the ordinaunce wolde sticke..in the myre.

1563 W. Fulke Goodle Gallerye Causes Meteors ii. f. 14^v A Comete is an Exhalation..fat and clammye, harde compacte lyke a greate lompe of pitche.

1611 Bible (King James) Song Three Children i. 22 (margin) Naphtha, which is a certaine kind of fat and chalkie clay.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 116 Fat Pitch, and black Bitumen, add to these.

1700 Moxon's Mech. Exercises: Bricklayers-wks. 2 A fat Earth full of Allom.

1787 G. Winter New Syst. Husbandry 332 It appeared very fat between the fingers.

1794 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) I. 116 The distinction of fat and meagre limestones.

1843 J. E. Portlock Rep. Geol. Londonderry 682 The fat clay..is mixed with a meagre or sandy clay.

1904 G. F. Goodchild & C. F. Tweney Technol. & Sci. Dict. 216/2 Fat Lime, a nearly pure lime (calcined white chalk).

†6. Full of stimulating elements, rich. Obsolete.

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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > fertilizing or manuring > [adjective]

fatty1590

fructiferous1632

fattening1697

fat1707

1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 268 Fat, warm and subtile Nourishments.

1797 J. Wolcot Ode to Livery of London in Wks. (1812) III. 441 Pine-apples ne'er grow on cold raw clay But fat manure.

7. Of fluids: Charged with solid or extraneous particles.

†a. Of water: Thick, turbid.

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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > pollution or defilement > [adjective] > full of sediment

fata1387

puddled1559

roiled1611

roil1658

scuddy1797

riley1805

roily1823

riled1830

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 259 Fatte water.

1587 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. vi. i. 160 The fattest standing water is alwaies the best.

1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 213 This Serpent is bredde in fatte waters and soyles.

1714 Philos. Trans. 1713 (Royal Soc.) 28 233 When the Water is fattest and fullest of Foam.

†b. Of wine or ale: Fruity, full-bodied, sugary.

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the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > sweetness > [adjective]

sweetc888

sootc950

doucea1350

sweetlya1350

softa1398

lusciousc1420

dulcet1440

mellite?1440

sugarishc1450

dulce1508

ambrosiana1522

figgy?1549

nut-sweet1586

nectaredc1595

dulcid1596

marmalady1602

fat1610

unsharp1611

unsour1611

marmalade1617

dulcorous1676

dulceous1688

saccharaceous1689

sugar-candyish1852

saccharic1945

the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > types or qualities of intoxicating liquor > [adjective] > fruity or sugary

fat1610

1610 Bible (Douay) II. Ezek. xxvii. 18 The Damacene was thy merchant..in fatte wine.

1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. iii. 102 These Cloysters haue a brauer life for good cheare [and] fat Wines..than any..Friers can elsewhere find.

1816 W. Scott Antiquary xi A species of fat ale.

c. Of air, mist, etc.: Charged with moisture or odours; dense. rare. †Of a room: Full of dense air.

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the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > [adjective]

strongOE

savouringc1384

breatheda1398

flairinga1400

smellinga1400

odorifere?a1425

odorous?a1425

smellablec1449

odoranta1465

odoriferousc1487

odiferousa1500

odoureda1500

odiferant1509

redolent?a1513

reflairing1523

odoriferantc1550

scenting1577

odorable1589

breathful1593

fat1598

olent1607

smelled1617

odorific1685

tainted1704

odourful1889

osmic1912

the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being slightly wet > [adjective]

moista1382

moistfula1398

undriedc1440

wak1513

mocha1522

humorous1526

humidc1550

dabby1581

fat1598

unparched1599

moistish1610

dampisha1642

weakya1642

rafty1655

dampya1691

damp1706

mochy1794

danky1820

the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fetor > [adjective] > fusty or musty > of air or atmosphere

fustya1529

mustya1529

fat1598

frowzy1681

musty-smelling1852

musty-fusty1857

the world > matter > gas > air > [adjective] > specific qualities of (the) air > thick or turbid

troublyc1380

greata1398

murkc1480

mistyc1485

foggyc1487

troublea1500

grossa1592

fat1598

filthya1616

thick1626

murky1667

turbid1705

solid1807

the world > matter > gas > air > [adjective] > specific qualities of (the) air > thick or turbid > full of thick air

fat1598

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > pollution or defilement > environmental pollution > [adjective] > bad air > not ventilated

fat1598

airlessa1616

unaired1682

unventilated1712

unperflated1768

mochy1825

fuggy1888

fugged1971

1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. v. 1 Come out of that fat roome.

1659 R. Lovelace Poems (1864) 186 When a fat mist we view, we coughing run.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals viii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 38 Make fat with Frankincense the sacred Fires.

1837 R. W. Emerson Oration before Phi Beta Kappa Soc. 25 Public and private avarice make the air we breathe thick and fat.

†d. See quot. 1683. Obsolete.

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1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. Dict. 375 Fat Ashes, Founders call their Ashes Fat, if they are considerably Heavy, because then they have much Mettle in them.

8. fat oil or oils: in various senses (see quots.).

ΚΠ

?1790 J. Imison Curious & Misc. Articles (new ed.) 37 in School of Arts (ed. 2) Take four ounces of fat oil, very clear, and made of good linseed oil.

1838 T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 433 Fat oils become solid by long exposure.

1875 J. C. Wilcocks Sea Fisherman 179 Train-oil, a name given to it on the spot to distinguish it from whale, or seal oil..called fat-oil.

1877 H. Watts Dict. Chem. IV. 179 Fat or fixed oils..resemble one another in not being capable of distilling without decomposition.

III. With reference to the amount of produce or supply.

9. Yielding or capable of yielding excellent and abundant returns.

a. Of land: Fertile, rich.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > [adjective]

goodOE

bearinglOE

freshc1325

fat1393

plentive?a1400

fertilec1460

richa1522

fructual1528

batwell1534

battle?1542

battling1548

increaseful1594

uberousa1627

exuberanta1660

generous1661

productive1672

innerly1868

oasal1888

oasitic1896

1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xiii. 224 On fat londes and ful of donge foulest wedes groweth.

c1420 Pallad. on Husb. i. 72 To see thi lande..fatte and swete.

1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 112^v The fat ground.

1673 W. Cave Primitive Christianity i. i. 5 The blood of Christians making the Churches soil more fat and fertile.

1777 W. Robertson Hist. Amer. (1783) II. 98 The roots..multiply amazingly with the heat of the climate in a fat soil.

1827 R. Pollok Course of Time I. iii. 124 Turned fat lands To barrenness.

1851 D. Jerrold St. Giles & St. James (new ed.) xi, in Writings I. 103 The broad, fat fields of Kent lay smiling in the sun.

b. of a source of income (e.g. a benefice, office).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > wealth > wealth or riches > [adjective] > rich (of a source of wealth)

fatc1380

goldmine1909

c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 519 Ȝif þe benefice be faat.

1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xli. 253 To leaue his old poore place, for a fatter rowme.

1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 42 I would wish him the biggest and the fattest Bishoprick.

1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 228. ⁋1 A worthy Gentleman has lately offered me a fat Rectory.

1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond I. iii. 80 Church! priesthood! fat living!

1883 American 6 38 Congress as the creator of fat jobs.

1884 Manch. Examiner 17 Nov. 5/3 His fat sheriffship.

c. of a dispute or suit at law.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > action of courts in claims or grievances > [adjective] > other types of action or suit

real1444

popular1490

fat1644

pre-judicial1651

quantum valebant1827

prejudical1864

adjectician1880

prejudiciary1880

landmark1937

1644 J. Milton Of Educ. 3 The promising and pleasing thoughts of litigious terms, fat contentions, and flowing fees.

1646 J. Cooke Vindic. Professors Law 26 A recreation which they have..to recreate the spirit of the Judges and Advocates, which they call a Fat case.

1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. iii. xiii. 307 Never was such a Lawsuit,—so fat an affair for the attorney species.

†d. Of a prisoner: That can pay a good ransom. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > wealth > [adjective] > having large amount of money > that can pay a large amount

fat1548

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. cxxiij^v So with greate riches, and fatte prisoners, he returned again to Paris.

Categories »

e. Typography. fat take, fat work, in type-setting, work or a piece of work especially profitable to the compositor who works by the piece. Hence, fat page: one having many blank lines or spaces.

10. Well supplied with what is needful or desirable.

†a. Of a person: Affluent, wealthy. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > wealth > [adjective]

richeOE

eadyOE

richfulc1300

plenteousc1350

wealthyc1380

wealthfula1400

wlouȝa1400

wellc1405

biga1425

goldedc1450

substantious1490

able1516

opulent?1518

substantive1543

strong1581

fat1611

juicy1627

fortuned1632

affluent1652

rhinocerical1688

rough1721

rowthy1792

golden1797

strong-handed1817

well-to-do1831

wealth-encumbered1844

nabobish1857

rhinoceral1860

ingoted1864

tinny1871

pocket-filled1886

oofy1896

nawabi1955

brewstered2001

1611 Bible (King James) Psalms xcii. 14 They [the righteous] shalbe fat, & flourishing.

1679 R. South Serm. Several Occasions 265 Persons grown fatt & Wealthy by a long and successfull Imposture.

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Fat Cull, a rich fellow.

a1764 R. Lloyd Fam. Epist. from Hanbury's Ho. 19 Mark the fat Cit, whose good round sum, Amounts at least to half a Plumb.

b. Of things: Abundant, plentiful; esp. of a feast, pasture, etc. Also, Well-stocked.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > [adjective]

goodeOE

broadOE

fullOE

large?c1225

rifec1225

fulsomea1325

abundanta1382

plenteousa1382

copiousc1384

plentifula1400

ranka1400

aboundc1425

affluentc1425

aboundable?1440

seedy1440

manyfulc1450

ample1472

olda1500

richa1500

flowing1526

fertilent1535

wallingc1540

copy1546

abounding1560

fat1563

numbrous1566

good, great store1569

round1592

redundant1594

fruitful1604

cornucopian1609

much1609

plenty?a1610

pukka1619

redundant1621

uberant1622

swelling1628

uberous1633

numerousa1635

superfluent1648

full tide1649

lucky1649

redounding1667

numerose1692

bumper1836

prolific1890

proliferous1915

the mind > possession > supply > [adjective] > provided or supplied with something > stocked or stored with > well-stocked (with)

well-stored?a1425

stuffedc1440

replenished1548

well-laden1570

well-stocked1604

locuplete1609

fat1758

1563 2nd Tome Homelyes Gluttony & Drunkenness, in J. Griffiths Two Bks. Homilies (1859) ii. 306 He that loveth wine and fat fare shall never be rich.

1587 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Iland Brit. (new ed.) i. xviii. 110/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I The best and fattest pasturages.

1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 267 Finalie returnes With a fatt praii.

1611 Bible (King James) Ezek. xxxiv. 14 In a fat pasture shall they feede.

1677 A. Yarranton England's Improvem. 28 Scotland is a thin and lean Kingdom..England is a fat Kingdom.

1758 B. Franklin Poor Richard's Almanack 16 A fat Kitchen makes a lean Will.

c. a fat lot: a large amount, a great deal: always ironical and implying ‘very little, hardly anything’. Similarly a fat chance, implying ‘hardly any opportunity (or possibility)’; also (New Zealand) a fat show.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > small of quantity, amount, or degree [phrase] > very little

no (none) such1579

next to nothing1596

a fat lot1892

not such (a)1896

the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > improbability, unlikeliness > [noun] > remote chance

a hundred to one1647

a million to one1678

long odds1764

long shot1796

off-chance1844

long chance1854

outside chance1867

a fat chance1892

to have a Chinaman's chance1915

1892 I. Zangwill Children of Ghetto (1893) i. ii. 24 ‘I von't sell you no more tickets,’ said Sugarman... ‘A fat lot I care,’ said Becky, tossing her curls.

1899 C. J. C. Hyne Further Adventures Capt. Kettle i. 5 Shows what a fat lot of influence this État du Congo has got.

1906 F. Metcalfe Side Show Studies 99 The Proprietor..suggested sending the announcement..to the papers. ‘A fat chance I'd stand of having it printed,’ he grumbled.

1908 ‘I. Hay’ Right Stuff vi. 83 Rot! Fat lot you know about it, Dilly.

1914 D. H. Lawrence Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd iii. 72 Some women could have lived with him happy enough. An' a fat lot you'd have thanked me for my telling.

1916 J. S. Clouston Two's Two ix. 69 ‘And a fat lot of good they'll be!’ scoffed Archibald.

1922 S. Lewis Babbitt v. 63 Fat chance!

1933 W. S. Maugham Sheppey iii. 75 Fat chance I've got of going to France now.

1936 P. G. Wodehouse Laughing Gas viii. 88 A fat chance, of course. I should have known his psychology better.

1947 A. Vogt in D. M. Davin N.Z. Short Stories (1953) 374 The men from the mill..had a fat chance of getting in [to the pub] before that [6 p.m.].

1948 D. Ballantyne Cunninghams i. xii. 70 It would be corker if he could go outside with Carole Plowman... Fat show!

1951 E. Coxhead One Green Bottle i. 23 Idiot, thought Cathy. Fat lot you know.

1962 Coast to Coast 1961–2 87 You're a fat lot of help to me, moping about alone all the time.

1967 B. Wright tr. R. Queneau Between Blue & Blue xix. 208 Fat lot of use it was me getting my posterior frozen for a whole night to do my host a favour.

IV. Senses relating to sloth or complacancy.

11. Displaying the characteristics of a fat animal; slow-witted, indolent, self-complacent.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupidity, dullness of intellect > [adjective]

sloweOE

stuntc960

dullOE

hardOE

stuntlyc1000

sotc1050

dillc1175

dulta1225

simplea1325

heavy1340

astonedc1374

sheepishc1380

dull-witteda1387

lourd1390

steerishc1411

ass-likea1425

brainless?a1439

deafc1440

sluggishc1450

short-witted1477

obtuse1509

peakish1519

wearish1519

deaf, or dumb as a beetle1520

doileda1522

gross1526

headlessa1530

stulty1532

ass-headed1533

pot-headed1533

stupid?1541

sheep's head1542

doltish1543

dumpish1545

assish1548

blockish1548

slow-witted1548

blockheaded1549

surd1551

dull-headed1552

hammer-headed1552

skit-brained?1553

buzzardly1561

witless1562

log-headeda1566

assy1566

sottish1566

dastardly1567

stupidious1567

beetle-headed1570

calvish1570

bluntish1578

cod's-headed1578

grout-headed1578

bedaft1579

dull-pated1580

blate1581

buzzard-like1581

long-eared1582

dullard1583

woodena1586

duncical1588

leaden-headed1589

buzzard1592

dorbellical1592

dunstical1592

heavy-headeda1593

shallow-brained1592

blunt-witted1594

mossy1597

Bœotian1598

clay-brained1598

fat1598

fat-witted1598

knotty-pated1598

stupidous1598

wit-lost1599

barren1600

duncifiedc1600

lourdish1600

stockish1600

thick1600

booby1603

leaden-pated1603

partless1603

thin-headed1603

leaden-skulledc1604

blockhead1606

frost-brained1606

ram-headed1608

beef-witted1609

insulse1609

leaden-spirited1609

asininec1610

clumse1611

blockheadly1612

wattle-headed1613

flata1616

logger-headeda1616

puppy-headeda1616

shallow-patedc1616

thick-brained1619

half-headed1621

buzzard-blinda1625

beef-brained1628

toom-headed1629

thick-witted1634

woollen-witted1635

squirrel-headed1637

clod-pated1639

lean-souled1639

muddy-headed1642

leaden-witteda1645

as sad as any mallet1645

under-headed1646

fat-headed1647

half-witted1647

insipid1651

insulsate1652

soft-headed1653

thick-skulleda1657

muddish1658

non-intelligent1659

whey-brained1660

sap-headed1665

timber-headed1666

leather-headeda1668

out of (one's) tree1669

boobily1673

thoughtless1673

lourdly1674

logger1675

unintelligenta1676

Bœotic1678

chicken-brained1678

under-witted1683

loggerhead1684

dunderheaded1692

unintelligible1694

buffle-headed1697

crassicc1700

numbskulled1707

crassous1708

doddy-polled1708

haggis-headed1715

niddy-noddy1722

muzzy1723

pudding-headed1726

sumphish1728

pitcher-souleda1739

duncey1743

hebete1743

chuckheaded1756

dumb1756

duncely1757

imbecile1766

mutton-headed1768

chuckle-headed1770

jobbernowl1770

dowfarta1774

boobyish1778

wittol1780

staumrel1787

opaquec1789

stoopid1791

mud-headed1793

borné1795

muzzy-headed1798

nog-headed1800

thick-headed1801

gypit1804

duncish1805

lightweight1809

numbskull1814

tup-headed1816

chuckle-pate1820

unintellectuala1821

dense1822

ninnyish1822

dunch1825

fozy1825

potato-headed1826

beef-headed1828

donkeyish1831

blockheadish1833

pinheaded1837

squirrel-minded1837

pumpkin-headed1838

tomfoolish1838

dundering1840

chicken-headed1842

like a bump on a log1842

ninny-minded1849

numbheadeda1852

nincompoopish1852

suet-brained1852

dolly1853

mullet-headed1853

sodden1853

fiddle-headed1854

numb1854

bovine1855

logy1859

crass1861

unsmart1861

off his chump1864

wooden-headed1865

stupe1866

lean-minded1867

duffing1869

cretinous1871

doddering1871

thick-head1873

doddling1874

stupido1879

boneheaded1883

woolly-headed1883

leaden-natured1889

suet-headed1890

sam-sodden1891

dopey1896

turnip-headed1898

bonehead1903

wool-witted1905

peanut-headed1906

peanut-brained1907

dilly1909

torpid-minded1909

retardate1912

nitwitted1917

meat-headed1918

mug1922

cloth-headed1925

loopy1925

nitwit1928

lame-brained1929

dead from the neck up1930

simpy1932

nail-headed1936

square-headed1936

dingbats1937

pinhead1939

dim-witted1940

pea-brained1942

clueless1943

lobotomized1943

retarded1949

pointy-headed1950

clottish1952

like a stunned mullet1953

silly (or crazy) as a two-bob watch1954

out to lunch1955

pin-brained1958

dozy1959

eejity1964

out of one's tiny mind1965

doofus1967

twitty1967

twittish1969

twatty1975

twattish1976

blur1977

dof1979

goofus1981

dickheaded1991

dickish1991

numpty1992

cockish1996

the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > sloth or laziness > [adjective]

sweerc725

foridledc1230

idlea1300

faintc1325

recrayed1340

slewful1340

nicea1398

sleuthya1400

delicate?c1400

sleuthfulc1400

slothfulc1400

sloth1412

lurdanc1480

luskinga1500

luskish15..

droning1509

bumbard?a1513

slottery1513

desidiousa1540

lazy1549

slovening1549

truanta1550

sleuth1567

litherly1573

truantly1579

dronish1580

lubberly1580

truant-like1583

shiftless1584

sluggard1594

fat1598

lusky1604

sweatless1606

clumse1611

easeful1611

loselly1611

do-littlea1613

sluggardisha1627

pigritious1638

drony1653

murcid1656

thokisha1682

shammockinga1704

indolent1710

huddroun1721

nothing-doing1724

desidiose1727

lusk1775

slack-twisted1794

sweert1817

bone-lazya1825

lurgy1828

straight-backed1830

do-nothing1832

slobbish1833

bone idle1836

slouch1837

lotophagous1841

shammocky1841

bein1847

thoky1847

lotus-eating1852

fainéant1855

sluggardly1865

lazy-boned1875

do-naught1879

easy-going1879

lazyish1892

slobbed1962

the mind > emotion > pleasure > contentment or satisfaction > self-satisfaction > [adjective]

smug1551

fat1598

self-contented1631

self-pleased1633

self-satisfied1653

self-contenta1656

self-complacent1736

self-gratulating1755

complacent1767

well1773

self-congratulatory1798

comfortable1856

paddy1865

Podsnappian1866

cosy1927

the mind > emotion > pride > self-esteem > complacency > [adjective]

fat1598

self-contented1631

self-pleased1633

self-satisfied1653

self-contenta1656

complacing1669

self-complacentiala1711

self-complacinga1711

self-complacent1736

complacent1767

pinguid1768

unctuous1822

paddy1865

1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 268 Wel-liking Wits they haue grosse grosse, fat fat.

1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. v. 32 Duller shouldst thou be Then the fat weede which rootes it selfe in ease.

1611 Bible (King James) Isa. vi. 10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their eares heauy, and shut their eyes.

a1625 J. Fletcher Wit without Money (1639) i. sig. B1 Grounding their fat faithes upon old Countrey proverbes.

1790 E. Burke Wks. (1871) II. 373 The fat stupidity and gross ignorance.

a1822 P. B. Shelley Peter Bell III iv, in Poet. Wks. (?1840) 242/2 With loose fat smile, The willing wretch sat winking there.

a1854 J. Wilson in Webster's Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. (1890) How could it enter into his fat heart to conceive [etc.].

1879 Temple Bar No. 227 A fat smile of complacent wisdom on his face.

V. Other uses.

12. With the senses mixed.

ΚΠ

c1325 Poem Times Edw. II 188 in Pol. Songs (Camden) 332 The frere wole to the direge, if the cors is fat.

1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. v. 517 Sher. A grosse fat man. Car. As fat as butter.

1611 Bible (King James) Psalms cxix. 70 Their heart is as fat as grease.

1642 T. Fuller Holy State v. xix. 437 These countreys were fat enough to be stewed in their own liquour.

a1732 J. Gay New Song Similes in Songs My cheeks as fat as butter grown.

B. n.²

a. The adjective used absol. The fat part of anything. †Rarely in plural.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > greasy or fatty material > [noun] > derived from animals

smearc725

smolta1000

seamc1200

greasec1290

fat1393

creesha1400

brawn1535

axunge?1541

axungiety1599

axungiousness1599

1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xxii. 280 That cast for to kele a crokke and saue þe fatte aboue.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Lev. xvii. 6 Burne the fat for a swete sauoure vnto the Lord.

?a1547 Ten Recipes Henry VIII in Vicary's Anat. Bodie of Man (1888) App. ix. 222 Take, the fatte of capons or hennys.

1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique i. ix. 42 He shal make prouision of fats or of the marrowes of the bones of mutton.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 439 Then sacrificing, laid The Inwards and thir Fat..On the cleft Wood.

1748 H. Glasse Art of Cookery (ed. 3) ix. 205 Pour the Fat out of the Pan.

1890 Mrs. Beeton Cookery Bk. 19/1 Droppings of fat and gravy..fall from the roast meat.

b. plural or (in attributive use only) collective singular. Fat cattle or sheep. Australian and New Zealand.

ΚΠ

1886 C. Scott Pract. Sheep-farming 137 Sheep intended for the fat market.

1894 A. Robertson Nuggets 132 What say ye to him goin' to Melbourne to see the flock o' fats sold at the Flemington Yards?

1907 W. H. Koebel Return of Joe 20 The only different thing you'll see, I hope, will be a larger mob of fats.

1921 H. Guthrie-Smith Tutira xxxvi. 362 I remember..watching the well-known dealer, Andrew Grant, picking ‘fats’.

1936 I. L. Idriess Cattle King ix. 77 Drovers with their plants were coming in increasing numbers to drove to distant markets the growing herds of ‘fats’.

1954 B. Miles Stars my Blanket xxiii. 199 Their four-year-olds..will be trucked to the factories as ‘fats’.

1969 Sunday Mail Mag. (Brisbane) 5 Oct. 2/1 We were mustering fats along the channels of Cooper's Creek.

2. In various transferred senses:

†a. The soft part of a fruit or tree.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > part of plant > cell or aggregate tissue > [noun] > tissue > pith or soft internal tissue

marroweOE

pitheOE

flesh1574

fat1575

pulp1578

medulla1583

brain1601

matrix1633

1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 278 Anoynting the ende of the borowed feather in the fatte of a figge.

1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 109 The fatte, the softest and the woorst part of the tree.

†b. the fat of glass: = French suin de verre, sandiver n., glass-gall n. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > glass and glass-like materials > [noun] > glass-making materials > waste matter in glass production

sandiverc1400

fretten1477

the fat of glass1578

collet1662

moil1875

1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball 116 That which..swimmeth upon the stuffe whereof Glasses are made, is now called in Shoppes Axungia vitri: in English, the fatte or floure of Glasse.

c. The richest or most nourishing part of anything; the choicest produce (of the earth). Hence also: plenty, superabundance. Also U.S. Mining(see quot. 1883). Now rare except in phrase (to eat, live on) the fat of the land.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > prosperity > prosper or flourish [verb (intransitive)] > be in easy circumstances

(to eat, live on) the fat of the land1530

to be laughing1930

to have never had it so good1944

the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > [noun] > plenty or fertility > richest part

fatnessc1000

fat1530

sumen1601

1530 Bible (Tyndale) xlv. f. 68^v Ye shall eate the fatt of the londe.

1596 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent (rev. ed.) 247 This Realme..wanted neither the fauour of the Sunne, nor the fat of the Soile.

1611 Bible (King James) Gen. xlv. 18 Ye shall eat the fat of the land .

1611 Bible (King James) Deut. xxxii. 14 The fat of kidneis of wheat.

1624 P. Massinger Bond-man i. iii. sig. C2 In this plenty, And fat of peace.

a1639 J. Dyke Right Receiving of Christ (1640) xiii. 188 The fat and moysture of the earth.

1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια Isagoge sig. F3 Sulphurs, which are the fat of the earth.

1832 L. Hunt Poems Pref. 9 We have the poetry..of the ‘fat of the land’ in Thomson.

1858 A. Trollope Three Clerks II. viii. 169 For thirteen years he has lived on the fat of the land.

1883 J. H. Beadle Western Wilds xxxv. 584 Here and there..are sometimes found little accretions of pure silver which miners speak of as ‘the fat of the vein’.

d. a bit of fat: (an instance of) good fortune; (an opportunity for) profit. colloquial.

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the world > action or operation > prosperity > [noun] > good fortune > piece of

opportunity?a1425

honeyfall1642

luck in a bag1649

godsend1810

stroke of luck1853

bonanza1878

lucky break1889

break1911

a bit of fat1923

snip1932

1923 E. C. Brewer Dict. Phr. & Fable 419/2 A bit of fat, an unexpected stroke of luck; also, the best part of anything.

1936 ‘J. Curtis’ Gilt Kid ii. 19 ‘Where did you graft in Wandsworth?’ ‘Cleaner.’ ‘Blimey, that was a bit of fat for you, wasn't it?’ ‘Yeah, but you couldn't pinch no grub.’

1951 P. Branch Wooden Overcoat i. 6 He had been acquitted... Cor! What a bit o' fat! I got away with it!

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a. The oily concrete substance of which the fat parts of animal bodies are chiefly composed; any particular variety of this substance. Often modified by a noun prefixed, as beef-, candle-, cow-, mutton-, ox-, etc. fat.

b. Chemistry. Any of a class of organic compounds of which animal fat is the type.

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the world > matter > chemistry > organic chemistry > organic compounds > [noun] > other organic compounds > others

fat1539

nitromannite1857

friction-powder1864

nitramidin1866

nitroform1866

phenyl brown1875

ketide1907

tetryl1909

cyclonite1923

pentryl1933

1539 in J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices (modernized text) III. 285/4 1593 Ludlow. Candle fat 12³/ ₄ lb. @/2¹/ ₂.

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Fatte or grease, sagina.

1731 J. Arbuthnot Ess. Nature Aliments ii. 21 This Membrane separates an oily Liquor call'd Fat.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth IV. 4 The muscles of the body are very strong, and without fat.

1841 T. R. Jones Gen. Outl. Animal Kingdom xxx. 689 But, beneath the skin, fat has been accumulated in prodigious quantities.

1860 F. Nightingale Notes on Nursing (rev. ed.) vii. 99 Butter is the lightest kind of animal fat.

1884 Athenæum 12 Apr. 465/1 Fats were dear in the early time.

1884 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Fat, a greasy substance consisting of carbon, hydrogen, and a little oxygen..Fats are contained in both plants and animals and are compounds of glycerin with acids, chiefly palmitic, oleic, or stearic.

1891 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 7 Mar. Suppl. 78/1 Fats are digested with the expenditure of a small amount of energy.

c. Phrases: †to lick the fat from the beard of: to forestall the results of (a person's) enterprise or industry. †the fat flits from (a man's) beard: he lets go the advantage he has gained. (all) the fat is in the fire: in early use expressing that a design has irremediably failed; now used when some injudicious act has been committed that is sure to provoke a violent explosion of anger. to chew the fat: see chew v. 3h.

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the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > unsuccessful [phrase] > failure of an action or design

(all) the fat is in the fire1546

the bottom falls out of1637

the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > unsuccessful [phrase] > loss of advantage gained

the fat flits from (a man's) beard1546

the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > precede or come before [verb (transitive)] > anticipate or forestall > the results of an enterprise

to lick the fat from the beard of1546

the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > commotion, disturbance, or disorder > in a state of commotion or disorder [phrase]

on steerc1480

the devil to paya1500

in (an) uproar1548

the devil rides on a fiddle-stick1598

in motion1598

the devil (and all) to doa1681

(all) the fat is in the fire1797

1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. iii. sig. Aiv Than farewell ryches, the fat is in the fyre.

1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. iii. sig. Aiv Blame me not to haste, for feare..the fat cleane flyt fro my berde.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. clix^v Other..marchantes..sore abhorryng the Italian nacion, for lickyng the fat from their beardes, and taking from them their accustomed liuyng.

1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Sept. 123 But they that shooten neerest the pricke Sayne, other the fat from their beards doen lick.

1644 Ormonde Let. in Carte Life (1735) III. 281 I hear nothing of the armes, ammunition or provisions, without all which all the fat is in the fire.

1797 J. Wolcot Ode to Livery of London in Wks. (1812) III. 449 Should we once complain The fat will all be in the fire.

1850 T. Carlyle Latter-day Pamphlets iv. 4 The fat in the fire will be a thing worth looking at.

4. The habit of body marked by the deposition of fat; corpulence, obesity.

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the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > broad shape or physique > [noun] > fat or plump shape or physique > state of having

fatnessc1000

greasea1340

corsiousnessc1440

fleshiness1541

plumpness1545

corporateness1547

fogginess1547

fleshliness1552

corpulency1577

corpulence1581

corsiness1587

fullness1599

obesity1611

pinguitude1623

obeseness1653

aletude1656

portliness1658

eventriqueness1667

rotundity1684

fat1726

rotundness1727

bloatedness1732

embonpoint1751

roundness1763

repleteness1770

plumpitude1828

corporosity1837

stoutness1838

crumb1843

plumptitude1843

roundedness1849

chubbiness1850

adiposeness1868

roundliness1870

buxomness1875

bloat1905

tubbiness1906

poundage1915

overweight1917

endomorphy1940

plumpishness1947

pudge1967

morbid obesity1969

1726 W. R. Chetwood Voy. & Adventures Capt. R. Boyle 45 The two first [women] were very handsom, a little inclining to Fat.

5. In the phraseology of various trades or occupations, applied to especially lucrative kinds of work.

†a. (See quot. 1699).

ΚΠ

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Fat, the last landed, inned or stow'd of any sort of Merchandize..so called by the several Gangs of Water-side-Porters.

1785 in F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue

b. Printing (see quot. 1841).

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society > communication > printing > printed matter > arrangement or appearance of printed matter > [noun] > blank space

vantage1683

fat1796

white space1888

printers' fat1898

1796 Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 3) Fat amongst printers means void spaces.

1841 W. Savage Dict. Art of Printing Fat, with compositors, short pages, blank pages, and light open matter: with pressmen, light forms, forms that require one pull at wooden presses.

c. Newspaper (see quot. 1890).

ΚΠ

1890 Answers 6 Dec. 24 If he [the liner] has a piece of ‘fat’ (that is, a good piece of exclusive news).

d. Theatrical, a part with good lines and telling situations, which gives the player an opportunity of appearing to advantage.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > part or character > [noun] > types of part or character

underpart1679

persona muta1714

travesty1732

soubrette1753

old man1762

small part?1774

breeches-part1779

character part1811

fat1812

chambermaida1828

fool?1835

raisonneur1845

ingénue1848

villain of the piece1854

stock character1864

feeder1866

satirette1870

character role1871

travesty1887

thinking part1890

walk-on1902

cardboard cutout1906

bit1926

good guy1928

feed1929

bad guy1932

goody1934

walkthrough1935

narrator1941

cameo1950

black hat1959

1812 Dramatic Censor 1811 440 Mr Dowton..did not exhibit any propensity to give us too much of the fat.

1883 Referee 18 Mar. 2/4 They have nothing to do, all the fat having been seized by Terry.

1885 W. C. Day Behind Footlights 116 Lest any of his ‘fat’ should be lost through the self grimaces of his fellow comedian.

1933 P. Godfrey Back-stage iii. 36 An expression which is likely to puzzle the uninitiated is the term ‘fat’. Theatrical ‘fat’ is determined not by the size of the part, but by its effectiveness.

Compounds

C1.

a. General attributive.

(a)

fat-basis n.

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1847–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. IV. i. 129/1 Growths of fat-basis.

fat-cell n.

ΚΠ

1845 G. E. Day tr. J. F. Simon Animal Chem. I. 355 Some..presented a resemblance to conglomerate fat-cells.

fat-corpuscle n.

ΚΠ

1847–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. IV. i. 96/1 Deposition of peculiar altered fat-corpuscles.

fat-deposit n.

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1847–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. IV. i. 96/1 The relationship of fat-deposit to the morbid changes in Bright's disease.

fat-drop n.

ΚΠ

1861 T. R. Jones Gen. Outl. Animal Kingdom (ed. 3) iii. 40 Dark globules, resembling fat-drops.

fat-gland n.

ΚΠ

1866 Chambers's Encycl. at Skin The sebaceous or fat glands.

fat-globule n.

ΚΠ

1846 G. E. Day tr. J. F. Simon Animal Chem. II. 326 Fat-globules were detected under the microscope.

fat-granule n.

ΚΠ

1847–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. IV. i. 130/2 We have occasionally seen fat granules in these tumours.

fat-mass n.

ΚΠ

1872 G. M. Humphry Observ. Myology 5 In addition to the four fat-masses disposed with the longitudinal series of vessels are four deep fat-masses lying beneath the four lateral muscles.

fat-vesicle n.

ΚΠ

1845 R. B. Todd & W. Bowman Physiol. Anat. I. iii. 82 The fat vesicle of the human subject.

(b)

fat-like adj.

ΚΠ

1712 P. Blair in Philos. Trans. 1710–12 (Royal Soc.) 27 95 A fat-like Substance.

b. Objective.

fat-engendering adj.

ΚΠ

1883 Knowl. 20 July 34/2 Fat-engendering repose.

fat-formation n.

ΚΠ

1909 Daily Chron. 8 July 6/4 Fat-formation in the body..is not to be regarded as a mere accretion or addition of the fat we consume to the tissues of the frame.

fat-former adj.

ΚΠ

1886 C. Scott Pract. Sheep-farming 41 A ton of good linseed cake contains of fat-formers 1508 lbs.; of flesh-formers, 582 lbs.

1893 F. F. Moore I forbid Banns xxxiv She knew the flesh-formers from the fat-formers, and partook of both.

fat-forming adj.

ΚΠ

1848 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1847 116 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (30th Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 54) VI With respect to the fat-forming principle..the proportions of the different parts of the grain stand thus.

fat-reducing adj.

ΚΠ

1883 Knowl. 27 July 49/2 Dangerous fat-reducing systems.

fat-splitting adj.

ΚΠ

1890 J. S. Billings National Med. Dict. I Fat-splitting ferment, steapsin.

1907 Practitioner Aug. 320 The steapsin, or fat-splitting ferment of the pancreatic juice.

1955 J. G. Davis Dict. Dairying (ed. 2) 181 Tributyrin is extremely bitter, and certain fat-splitting bacteria may cause bitterness by producing this substance.

C2. Special combinations.

fat-body n. (in arthropods, esp. insects, and amphibians) a mass consisting of connective tissue and globules of fat, forming a reserve store of nutritious matter.

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the world > animals > amphibians > [noun] > member of (amphibian) > parts of

tarsus1676

lateral line1740

sideline1769

fat-body1868

pylangium1874

urostyle1875

supracoracoid1897

hedonic gland1901

supracleithrum1903

prepubis1931

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > [noun] > member of > parts of > fat forming reserve store

fat-body1868

1868 A. S. Packard Guide to Study of Insects 37 In the larva of insects is found the corpus adiposum, or fat-body, in the form of large lobes of fat-cells.

1901 Cambr. Nat. Hist. VIII. 52 There is in some Anura..a mysterious organ, intercalated between the fat-body and the testis or ovary.

1927 J. B. S. Haldane & J. S. Huxley Animal Biol. iv. 113 In the frog fat is stored in special fat-bodies.

1964 V. B. Wigglesworth Life of Insects ix. 136 It may be the ‘fat body’ or the blood that is coloured.

fat boy n. (see quots.).

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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific tools or equipment > [noun] > with wheels

ventilatora1800

wheel-boy1825

whirler1825

wheelman1865

fat boy1940

1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 324/1 Fat boys or fatters, boys or men employed to lubricate axles of tubs or wagons and rollers of haulage gear.

1955 Evening News 28 Sept. 3/8 Fat Boy, a boy who greases wagon-axles and does odd jobs in a quarry.

fat-cake n. (see quots. 1865, 1898).

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > cake > [noun] > a cake > other cakes

honey appleeOE

barley-cake1393

seed cakea1400

cake?a1425

pudding-cake?1553

manchet1562

biscuit cake1593

placent1598

poplin1600

jumbal1615

bread pudding1623

semel1643

wine-cakea1661

Shrewsbury cake1670

curd cake1675

fruitcake1687

clap-bread1691

simnel cake1699

orange-flower cake1718

banana cake1726

sweet-cake1726

torte1748

Naples cake1766

Bath cake1769

gofer1769

yeast-cake1795

nutcake1801

tipsy-cake1806

cruller1808

baba1813

lady's finger1818

coconut cake1824

mint cake1825

sices1825

cup-cake1828

batter-cake1830

buckwheat1830

Dundee seed cake1833

fat-cake1839

babka1846

wonder1848

popover1850

cream-cake1855

sly-cake1855

dripping-cake1857

lard-cake1858

puffet1860

quick cake1865

barnbrack1867

matrimony cake1871

brioche1873

Nelson cake1877

cocoa cake1883

sesame cake1883

marinade1888

mystery1889

oblietjie1890

stuffed monkey1892

Greek bread1893

Battenberg1903

Oswego cake1907

nusstorte1911

dump cake1912

Dobos Torte1915

lekach1918

buckle1935

Florentine1936

hash cake1967

space cake1984

1839 ‘T. Treddlehoyle’ Sum Thowts abaght Nan Bunt's Chresmas Tea-party 19 A great pile of muffins an fat-cake browt up at table.

1865 W. Howitt Hist. Discov. Austral. II. 15 Fat-cakes, made of flour, and fried in their pan, a bush dainty.

1898 E. E. Morris Austral Eng. Fat-cake, a ridiculous name sometimes applied to Eucalyptus leucoxylon.

1953 P. H. Abrahams Return to Goli vi. 200 After this we had fat-cakes and coffee.

fat-fish n. the blue-fish.

ΚΠ

1905 East London Disp. 7 Aug. When opened the stomach usually contains large lobes of fat—hence the name fat-fish.

fat-free adj. free from fat.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > fat or oil > [adjective] > without fat

fatless1825

fat-free1869

the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > [adjective] > relating to meat > lean

leanc1430

leany?a1475

fatless1825

fat-free1869

scraggy1871

1869 E. A. Parkes Man. Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 160 The dog and the rat can live on fat-free meat alone.

fat-gude n. Shetland dialect (see quot.).

ΚΠ

1860 D. Balfour Odal Rights & Feudal Wrongs 114 Fatgude, a term used in Zetland for the Butter or Oil paid to the Donatary.

fat-liquor n. a mixture of soap and oil used in leather manufacture for softening hides; also as v.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with skins > work with skins [verb (transitive)] > treat with grease or oil

liquor1502

dub?1611

shamoy1842

stuff1844

wax1885

dubbin1897

fat1903

fat-liquor1903

society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > leather > leather-making materials > [noun] > grease for softening or waterproofing

dubbing1781

degras1882

fat-liquor1903

daubing-

1903 L. A. Flemming Pract. Tanning 127 The leather treated with it [sc. palmetto] takes even cooling and carries the fat-liquor well.

1945 G. D. McLaughlin & E. R. Theis Chem. Leather Manuf. xxiv. 739 It [sc. egg yolk] clarifies the fatliquor and..gives a drier, or a less oily and greasy feel, to the surface of the leather.

fat-liquored adj.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > skin or hide > [adjective] > dressed or softened

brain-dressed1851

waxed1852

fat-liquored1903

1903 L. A. Flemming Pract. Tanning 22 The leather is then ready to be stained or colored, fat-liquored, put out on the grain and treated in the finishing operations.

1945 G. D. McLaughlin & E. R. Theis Chem. Leather Manuf. xxiv. 742 A sample of fatliquored, chrome-tanned calf skin.

fat-liquoring n.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with skins > [noun] > treating with grease or oil

shamoying1837

stuffing1852

fat-liquoring1931

1931 J. A. Wilson & H. B. Merrill Anal. Leather xi. 395 In both fat liquoring and finishing, most of the fatty constituents of the soap are absorbed by the leather.

1945 G. D. McLaughlin & E. R. Theis Chem. Leather Manuf. xxiv. 723 Soap emulsions are used in some special cases for fatliquoring leather.

† Fat Monday n. [= French lundi gras] Obsolete the Monday before Shrove Tuesday.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Sunday before Lent > [noun] > period following > first week of > Sunday, Monday, Tuesday of > Monday in

Shrove Mondayc1450

merry Monday1565

Fat Monday1585

Shrift Monday1587

Collop Monday1614

1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iv. xxxvi. 159 b They doe obserue two Lents..wherof the first beginneth on the fat munday, being ix. dayes before the lent of the Latins.

fat-soluble adj. soluble in fats or oils.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > making or becoming liquid > action or process of dissolving > [adjective] > soluble > in fats or oils

fat-soluble1922

oil-soluble1925

1922 Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 932/1 These [vitamins] are (1) the anti-scorbutic factor; (2) the water-soluble B.; (3) the fat-soluble A.

1926 J. S. Huxley Ess. Pop. Sci. viii. 88 Fat-soluble vitamin A.

1956 Nature 21 Jan. 123/2 The chlorinated compounds which are fat-soluble and chemically stable tend to accumulate in the fatty tissue.

fat-tree n. one of a class of trees of temperate zones, including chiefly the soft-wooded trees such as the birch, lime, and conifers, which, at the beginning of winter, convert the starch of the bark and wood into fat, and reconvert it into starch in the spring.

ΚΠ

1903 tr. A. F. W. Schimper Plant-geogr. 437 In the group of fat-trees, which are chiefly soft-wooded species, such as conifers, birches, and lime-trees, all the starch in the cortex and wood is converted into fat.

fat-trap n. a device for catching fat in drains, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > provision of sewers > [noun] > sewer > device for catching fat or grease

fat-trap1884

grease-trap1884

1884 Internat. Health Exhib. Official Catal. 55/1 Gullies and Fat-Traps.

Special uses

S1. Parasynthetic (chiefly in sense A. 2). Also fat-faced adj., fat-witted adj.

fat-arsed adj.

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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > back > buttock(s) > [adjective] > types of

pin-buttocked1566

strong-dockeda1652

swag-buttockeda1652

callipygian1818

pin-tailed1825

fat-arsed1891

callipygous1923

rumpsprung1939

steatopygial1978

1891 J. S. Farmer Slang II. 377/1 Fat-arsed, broad in the breech.

1923 D. H. Lawrence Kangaroo xvi. 351 Slaving to keep this marvellous Empire going, with its..fat-arsed hypocritical upper classes.

fat-backed adj.

ΚΠ

1607 A. Brewer Lingua iii. ii, in W. C. Hazlitt Dodsley's Sel. Coll. Old Eng. Plays (1874) IX. 386 Your..fat-backed..drones.

fat-barked adj.

ΚΠ

1616–61 B. Holyday tr. Persius Sat. 297 ‘Armes, and the man I sing.’ Perchance you'l dare To call this frothy, fat-bark'd [L. cortice pingui]?

fat-beneficed adj. (Sense A. 9.)

ΚΠ

1634 M. Wilson Mercy & Truth i. vi. 216 Such fat-beneficed Bishops.

fat-brained adj. (Sense A. 2a or A. 11.)

ΚΠ

1596 M. Drayton Mortimeriados sig. I4 Fat-braind Fleamings.

fat-eyebrowed adj.

ΚΠ

1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Encapotado de ojos Fat eie browed.

fat-fleshed adj.

ΚΠ

1863 M. A. Power Arab. Days & Nights 109 Those ‘fat-fleshed’ fair ones.

fat-hearted adj. (Sense A. 2a, or A. 11.)

ΚΠ

1607 S. Hieron Good Fight in Wks. (1620) I. 230 The fat-hearted Israelites.

fat-hipped adj.

ΚΠ

1921 D. H. Lawrence Let. ?26 Mar. (1962) II. 647 The fat-hipped soft fellow we saw at Anticoli last year.

fat-kidneyed adj.

ΚΠ

1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. ii. 6 Peace ye fat-kidneyd rascal.

fat-legged adj.

ΚΠ

1720 in T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth VI. 351 Glud [sic] Kate and fat legged Lissey.

1891 R. Kipling City Dreadful Night 72 Quaint houses, with fat-legged balustrades on the roofs.

fat-paunched adj. (Sense A. 2b.)

ΚΠ

1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 1691/2 The fat panched bishop.

fat-rumped adj.

ΚΠ

1842 J. Bischoff Comprehensive Hist. Woollen Manuf. II. 289 The head is like that of the fat-rumped [sheep].

fat-tailed adj.

ΚΠ

1842 J. Bischoff Comprehensive Hist. Woollen Manuf. II. 320 The Doomba, or fat-tailed sheep of Cabool.

S2. Also, fat-head n.²

fat-back n. U.S. local a strip of fat from the back of a pig.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > fat or oil > [noun] > strip of pig's fat or crackling

scratchingc1440

scraps1823

crackling1834

fat-back1903

1903 Sears, Roebuck Catal. No. 113. 18/1 Clear back pork. This pork is made from the fat backs of prime hogs, is free from lean and bone.

1932 E. Caldwell Tobacco Road i. 8 Salty soup Ada had made by boiling several fat-back rinds in a pan of water.

1941 A. F. Raper Sharecroppers All 24 The great majority bring for lunch cold baked ‘taters’ and sandwiches of soda biscuits and fat back.

fat-bird n. a name (a) of the Guacharo Steatornis caripensis; (b) of the Pectoral Sandpiper Actodromas maculata (U.S.).

fat cat n. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.) a political backer; also transferred.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > wealth > [noun] > rich or wealthy person

rich manOE

richOE

Divesc1386

richlingc1445

stuffed manc1460

cob1548

wealthling1581

tercel-gentle1597

good liver1602

goldfinch1603

fill-sack1641

dorado1643

wealth-monger1654

a man, etc. of fortune1732

nabob1760

nawab1826

rico1844

abounder1876

high roller1876

fat cat1928

richie1954

wealth-holder1957

jet-setter1959

society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > [noun] > party machine > rich political backer

fat cat1928

1928 F. R. Kent Polit. Behavior vi. 59 These capitalists have what the organization needs—money to finance the campaign. Such men are known in political circles as ‘Fat Cats’.

1949 Sat. Rev. Lit. (U.S.) 16 Apr. 4 Hollywood celebrities, literary fat cats.

1960 Economist 8 Oct. 157/2 Methods of exhorting [sic] money which..harry so-called ‘fat-cats’—rich supporters—to an extent which looks like cruelty to animals.

1966 New Statesman 21 Jan. 78/3 The kind of balance-sheet fat cats who characterise the worst side of ITV.

1971 Flying Apr. 34/1 Those who view the business jet as a smoke-belching, profit-eating chariot of the fatcat.

fat colour n. stale mixed paint which has become greasy owing to exposure.

ΚΠ

1904 G. F. Goodchild & C. F. Tweney Technol. & Sci. Dict. (at cited word) Fat colour is sometimes used for painting rough work, being thinned down with turpentine or benzene before use.

fat crab n. U.S. a crab ready to shed its shell.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > division Thoracostraca > order Decapoda > suborder Brachyura (crab) > crabs at particular stage

soft crab1737

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prawn-stage1896

fat crab1905

1905 W. P. Hay in Rep. Bureau Fisheries 1904 (U.S.) 411 The individual bearing it [sc. a narrow white line] is classed as a ‘fat crab’, or more vulgarly as a ‘snot’.

fat edge n. a superfluous rim of paint left on the edge of a surface.

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1904 G. F. Goodchild & C. F. Tweney Technol. & Sci. Dict. (at cited word) A professional painter guards against fat edges.

fat-face n. (a) a term of abuse; (b) Typography less commonly fat letter (see quot. 1841), and attributive.

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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior person > [noun] > as abused

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1740 S. Richardson Pamela II. 234 Answer me, Fat-face!

1841 W. Savage Dict. Art of Printing Fat Face or Fat Letter is a letter with a broad stem.

1871 Amer. Encycl. Printing 169/2 Fat-face Letter, Letter with a broad face.

fat-fed adj. fed up to fatness: of a man, full-fleshed; also transferred.

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the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > broad shape or physique > [adjective] > fat or plump

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1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 181 This kind of Dog..is mighty, grosse, and fat fed.

1616 Trav. Eng. Pilg. in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) III. 329 Fat-fed friars.

1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. M5 The fat-fed smoking Temple.

fat-guts n. one having a big belly, used as a term of abuse, also attributive.

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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior person > [noun] > as abused

warlockOE

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mother1955

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louser1960

effer1961

salaud1962

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1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. ii. 31 Peace ye fat guts, lie downe.

1682 N. O. tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux Lutrin iv. 278 Till fat-guts Everard open'd, and quite marr'd it.

1853 W. J. Hickie tr. Aristophanes Comedies II. 536 Pray, sit down here, you fat guts.

fat lamb n. New Zealand a lamb bred to be exported as refrigerated meat.

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1891 R. Wallace Rural Econ. Austral. & N.Z. xxvii. 369 Any of the various breeds or crosses now in the country [sc. N.Z.] will supply suitable mothers for fat lambs, provided they are good milkers.

1923 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. 20 Jan. 50 Which breed of sheep is best for fat-lamb production?

1928 R. G. Stapledon Tour Austral. & N.Z. viii. 58 Fat lambs are also largely produced on a Romney basis.

1956 G. Bowen Wool Away! (ed. 2) xii. 147 On the flat country..fat-lamb and mutton production predominate.

fat-lute n. (see quot.).

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1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Fat-lute, a mixture of pipeclay and linseed oil for filling joints.

fat-rascal n. (see quots.).

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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > cake > [noun] > a cake > rich cake

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Dundee cake1836

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Dundee1920

Lane cake1921

1868 J. C. Atkinson Gloss. Cleveland Dial. Fat-rascal, a kind of rich tea-cake compounded with butter or cream..and with currants intermingled.

† fat-sagg adj. Obsolete hanging down with fat.

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the world > life > the body > bodily substance > fat > [adjective] > hanging down with fat

fat-sagg1604

1604 T. M. Blacke Bk. in Wks. (1886) VIII. 12 With her fat-sagg chin hanging down like a cow's udder.

fatstock n.

fat-stock n. marketable live-stock.

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the world > animals > domestic animal > [noun] > livestock

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1881 Trans. Dept. Agric. State Illinois 1880 18 65 The success of the Fat Stock Show.

1906 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 30 Jan. 5/4 It was decided to hold a fat stock sale in this city in the middle of March.

1907 R. Wallace Farming Industries Cape Colony (ed. 4) 281 Steers slaughtered at the Smithfield Fat-Stock Show.

1912 Jrnl. Bath & West & Southern Counties Soc. 5th Ser. 6 v. 175 For many years the Middle Whites carried off the highest awards at the fat stock shows.

1955 Times 13 July 12/5 The fatstock marketing scheme had been working successfully for the past 12 months.

fat-tail n. a fat-tailed sheep.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) > specific breeds or members of

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East Friesian1949

Texel1949

Norfolk Horn1961

Colbred1962

1888 Castle Line Handbk. S.A. 55 The fat-tails held their own for many years.

† fat-ware n. Obsolete cattle fatted for market.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > bos taurus or ox > [noun] > fattened or bred for slaughter > collectively

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Angus1810

beeves-

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. These forsooth they feed in mue, and franke them up like fat-ware, with good corn~meale.

fat-wood n. U.S. local = lightwood n.² a.

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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > pine > types of

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Queensland kauri1889

krummholz1908

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1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Fatwood, any pine wood full of pitch.

1938 M. K. Rawlings Yearling vii. 67 She unbanked the fire on the hearth and threw on fat-wood.

1963 Times 19 Mar. 10/7 All kinds of wood, including fat-wood.

Draft additions 1993

fat-mouth n. U.S. slang one who talks extravagantly, a loudmouth.

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the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > [noun] > boaster

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1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §537/3 Criminal lawyer,..fat-mouth.

1961 J. Heller Catch-22 (1962) xii. 126 Okay, fatmouth, out of the car.

Draft additions 1993

fat-mouth v. U.S. slang (chiefly Black English) (a) intransitive, to talk a great deal about something, with little or no action or result; (b) transitive, to talk excessively to, esp. in order to cajole or sweet-talk.

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1970 Atlantic May 61 They have to do something, have to move,..they can no longer sit back and fat-mouth about it.

1971 B. Malamud Tenants 71 I ain't asking you to fatmouth me, just as I am not interested in getting into any argument with you.

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fat camp n. originally U.S. a residential (summer) course with an emphasis on weight reduction, usually for children.

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1975 N.Y. Times 4 Aug. 34 It's not a fat camp... It's a ‘weight control community’ where women between the ages of 16 and 45 can spend their summer vacations and, they hope, take it off, take it all off.

1998 Guardian 22 Dec. i. 8/6 Up to 150 teenagers and pre-teens with a serious weight problem will spend six weeks on the pioneer course, adapted from US ‘fat camps’.

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fat client n. Computing (in a client-server network) a client terminal with significant processing capacity, on which system applications may be stored and run, spec. one with a hard disk; cf. thin client n. at thin adj., n., and adv. Additions.

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1991 PC Week (Nexis) 18 Nov. 47 Spiraling prices for RAM, hard drives and other workstation components have made the ‘fat client’ approach cost-effective.

1996 Computing 19 Sept. 29/1 Instead, British Gas decided on a fat client solution based on Pentium PCs.

2001 Toronto Star (Electronic ed.) 29 Jan. Back in the mid-1990s, both men referred to the PC as a fat client that hogged resources and regularly crashed.

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fat quarter n. (in needlework, especially patchwork) a piece of fabric that is half a yard (or half a metre) long and half the width of a bolt, typically measuring 18 inches by 22 inches; abbreviated FQ.

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1983 Richardson (Texas) Daily News 3 June 5/1 (advt.) Largest Inventory of Cotton Fabrics in the Southwest!.. ‘Fat Quarters’ 50^¢ 18″x22½″.

1998 Patchwork & Quilting Aug. 21/2 (advt.) Pack of 4 fat quarters in antique beige, lilac, green, blue and pink.

2012 Herald-Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 17 Mar. d4/1 These napkins are fun for any sewer who loves to mix and match fat quarters.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	fat
释义	† fatn.¹ Brit. /fat/, U.S. /fæt/ Forms: Old English fæt(t, Middle English fet, southern vet, (Middle English feat), Middle English–1700s fatt(e, Middle English–1600s fate, (Middle English faat), Middle English– fat, 1600s phat. See also vat n.¹ Etymology: Old English fæt strong neuter, corresponding to Middle Low German, Dutch vat, Old High German faz̧ (Middle High German vaz̧, modern German fass), Old Norse fat (Danish fad, Swedish fat) < Old Germanic fato-m < Germanic root fat- ( < pre-Germanic pod-, pōd-) to hold, contain; compare Old Frisian fatia, Middle Dutch vatten, Old High German faz̧z̧ôn (Middle High German vaz̧z̧en, modern German fassen) to grasp; also, Lithuanian pudas ( < pōdos) vessel; Old English fętel, Old High German fez̧z̧il (Middle High German vez̧z̧el sword belt, modern German fessel, fetter), Old Norse fetell band. Obsolete. 1. a. In early use gen. A vessel. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > [noun] chellec893 fatc950 vessel1550 c950 Lindisf. Gosp. John ii. 7 Gefylleð ȝie ða fatto of uætre. OE Cynewulf Elene 1025 Heo þa rode heht golde beweorcean ond gimcynnum, mid þam æðelestum eorcnanstanum besettan searocræftum ond þa in seolfren fæt locum belucan. OE Beowulf 2761 Geseah..he..fyrnmanna fatu. a1000 Ælfric Genesis xl. 11 And ic nam þa winberian & wrang on þæt fæt and sealde Faraone. c1050 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 347 Acerra, fæte oððe gledfæte. a1225 St. Marher. 18 Þe reue..bed..bringen forð a uet ant fullen hit of wettre. figurative.c1230 Hali Meid. 13 Þe uertu þat halt ure bruchele feat þat is ure feble flesch..in hal halinesse.1340 Ayenbite (1866) 231 Hi bereþ a wel precious tresor ine a wel fyebble uet. b. spec. A vessel of silver, or other metal, of a particular form; esp. one to contain holy-water. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > implement (general) > vessel (general) > holy water vessel > [noun] cruetc1290 fatc1330 holy water fat1464 aspersorium1861 society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > [noun] > metal vessel fatc1330 crockc1475 c1330 Arth. & Merl. 1054 A fende..pelt me in an holy fat. 1454 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1855) II. 175 A gylted cop called a fate covered. 1484–6 Churchwardens' Accts. Wigtoft, Lincs. in J. Nichols Illustr. Antient Times Eng. (1797) 79 For saudryng of the holy-water fatte. 1536 in Antiq. Sarisb. (1771) 198 A Fat of Silver for holy water. 1571 E. Grindal Iniunctions Prouince of Yorke §7. sig. B.iiij The Churchwardens..shall see..that all..Holy water stocks or Fattes..be vtterly defaced. 2. a. A vessel of large size for liquids; a tub, a dyer's or brewer's vat, a wine cask. Cf. vat n.¹In the King James Bible esp. the vat in which grapes are trodden. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > open vessels for liquids > [noun] > vat keevec1000 vata1225 drenche-kivea1300 fatc1450 kier1573 back1682 a1225 St. Marher. 17 Saloman þe wise..bitunde us in ane tunne, ant comen babilones men..ant breken þæt feat. c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 802 I schal fette yow a fatte your fette for to wasche.] c1450 (c1400) Sowdon of Babylon (1881) l. 3152 Kinge Charles..bade him ordeyne a grete fat To baptyse the Sowdone yne. 1469 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 46 The occupier..shall haue his wetyng of his barly in the fate of the seid Denyse duryng maltyng tyme. 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende f. 100^v/1 [He] made hym to be caste in to a fatte or a tonne full of hote oylle. ?1548 J. Bale Comedy Thre Lawes Nature ii. sig. Biiij Whan ale is in the fatt. 1565 A. Golding tr. Ovid Fyrst Fower Bks. Metamorphosis ii. f. 1 Autumne smerde with treadyng grapes late at the pressyng fat. a1610 J. Healey in tr. Theophrastus Characters To Rdr., in tr. Epictetus Manuall (1616) A great water~pot like a Diers fat, or chaldron. a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) ii. vii. 112 In thy Fattes our Cares be drown'd. View more context for this quotation 1677 J. Phillips tr. J.-B. Tavernier Persian Trav. v. viii. 219 in tr. J.-B. Tavernier Six Voy. (1678) The golden Fat out of which they take the water. 1679 Philos. Trans. 1677 (Royal Soc.) 12 1063 As the Brine runs from the Salt after it is laded out of the Phats. 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Wine The Liquor..should stand in the Fatt about fifteen days. 1755 N. Magens Ess. Insurances I. 521, 5 Fatts red Wine £1661: 16. b. Proverb. ΚΠ 1583 G. Babington Very Fruitfull Expos. Commaundem. vi. 278 They would haue euerie fat..stand on his owne bottome. 1678 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 37 Every Fatt must stand on his own bottom. View more context for this quotation 3. A cask or barrel to contain dry things. Occasionally more explicitly, dry-fat. ΚΠ 1540 Act 32 Hen. VIII c. 14 For the freight of a drie fatte of the biggest sort .vi. s. viii. d. sterling. 1622 R. Hawkins Observ. Voiage South Sea xxxvi. 89 Our Pipes and Fatts of bread. c1647 A. Wheelocke Let. in R. Parr Life J. Usher (1686) Coll. ccxlviii. 546 The Lambeth Books..as yet..remain in Fats, or great Chests. a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 227 Wares, That come in dry Fats o'er from Francfort Fairs. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 260/1 All Goods..in Barrels, Hogsheads, Fats, Chests or Packs. 1707 tr. M.-C. d'Aulnoy Diverting Wks. 386 The Fairy..return'd with a huge Fat full of Feathers. 1812 J. Smyth Pract. of Customs ii. 37 Battery, in Fats. 4. Used as a measure of capacity (see quots.). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > [noun] > specific liquid or dry units > barrel or cask as unit barrel1379 kilderkin1391 puncheon1400 fat1413 cask1728 1413 Act 1 Hen. V c. 10 Un mesure use deins la dicte Citee appelle le Faat. 1433 Act 11 Hen. VI c. 8 Une vessell appelle le Fat, que conteient viij busselx dez blees ou un autre bussell mys a ycell pur une quartier. 1600 T. Heywood Edward IV i. iii. i I would give..a fat of leather, to match her to some justice. 1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Ee1/2 Fate or Fat: is a great wooden vessell..vsed..to measure mault by, containing a quarter. 1660 Act 12 Chas. II c. 4 Sched. at Books The basket or maund, containing 8 bales or 2 fats. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Fat of Ising-glass, a Quantity from Three Hundred Weight and a quarter to Four Hundred Weight. 1866 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices I. x. 166 This measure [of 9 gallons] called a fatt was prohibited by statute. Compounds In combinations. ΚΠ 1483 Cath. Angl. 123/2 A Fattmaker, cuparius. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022). fatn.³ Brit. /fat/, /fa/, U.S. /fæt/ Etymology: French, a stupid, conceited person, < Provençal fat stupid, ignorant, < Latin fatuus : see fatuous adj. A presumptuous, conceited dandy; a fop. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [noun] > dandy popa1500 miniona1513 prick-me-daintya1529 puppy?1544 velvet-coat1549 skipjack1554 coxcomb1567 musk cat?1567 physbuttocke1570 Adonis?1571 Adon1590 foretop1597 musk-cod1600 pretty fellow1600 sparkc1600 spangle-baby1602 flash1605 barber-monger1608 cocoloch1610 dapperling1611 fantastica1613 feather-cock1612 trig1612 jack-a-dandy?1617 gimcrack1623 satinist1639 powder puffa1653 fop1676 prig1676 foplinga1681 cockcomb1684 beau garçona1687 shape1688 duke1699 nab1699 smirk1699 beau1700 petty master1706 moppet1707 Tom Astoner1707 dapper1709 petit maître1711 buck1725 toupee1727 toupet1728 toupet-man1748 jemmy1753 jessamy1753 macaroni1764 majoc1770 monkeyrony1773 dandyc1780 elegant1780 muscadin1794 incroyable1797 beauty man1800 bang-up1811 natty1818 ruffian1818 exquisite1819 heavy swell1819 marvellous1819 bit of stuff1828 merveilleux1830 fat1832 squirt1844 dandyling1846 ineffable1859 guinea pig1860 Dundreary swell1862 masher1872 dude1877 mash1879 dudette1883 dand1886 heavy gunner1890 posh1890 nut1904 smoothie1929 fancy-pants1930 saga boy1941 fancy Dan1943 the mind > emotion > pride > overweening or presumption > [noun] > person overweener1340 presumer1509 assumer1600 nail1819 fat1832 the mind > emotion > pride > self-esteem > conceit > [noun] > conceited person coxcomb1567 snipper-snappera1593 conceited1596 feather-cock1612 turkey-cocka1616 cockcomb1684 egotist1715 fop1755 fat1832 swell-head1845 swelled head1862 big-head1863 swollen head1898 Jack Strop1910 trombenik1922 1832 F. Trollope Domest. Manners Amer. (ed. 2) I. xx. 333 ‘Monsieur,’ said my young fat, with an indescribable grimace. 1853 C. Brontë Villette I. xiv. 265 I took my revenge on this ‘fat’, by making him as fatuitous as I possibly could. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda III. v. xxxv. 38 How that fat Deronda can bear looking at her. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2022). fatadj.n.² Brit. /fat/, U.S. /fæt/ Forms: Old English fǽt(t, Middle English fet(t(e, southern vet(te, Middle English–1600s fatt(e, Middle English southern vat(te, (Middle English faat), Middle English– fat. Etymology: Old English fǽtt, corresponding to Old Frisian fat, Middle Dutch, Dutch, Middle Low German vet (modern German fett adopted < Low German), Old High German feiz̧z̧it (Middle High German veiz̧et, veiz̧t, modern German feist) < Germanic faitido-, past participle of faitjan to fatten (Old High German veiz̧z̧en, Old Norse feita), < faito- adjective, fat, represented by Old Saxon feit, Middle High German veiz̧, Old Norse feitr* (Danish fed., Swedish fet); the existence of the primary adjective in Old English cannot be proved, as the form fæt in manuscripts is probably only a variant spelling of fǽtt. A. adj. I. With respect to bulk or condition. 1. Of an animal used for food: Fed up for slaughter, ready to kill, fatted. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > [adjective] > fattened fatc1000 refetc1380 fedc1400 masteda1500 well-fatted1540 fatted1552 fattened1616 saginated1791 c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Luke (Corpus Cambr.) xv. 27 Þin fæder of-sloh an fæt [c1160 Hatton Gosp. fet] celf. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. xxv. 6 A feste of fatte bestes. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 3643 O kyddes fatt þou fett me tuin. c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) xvii. 179 Ȝif thei [the children] ben fatte, þei eten hem anon. c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 351 Ful many a fat partrych hadde he in Muwe. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 151/2 Fat fowle, or beste, mestyde to be slayne, altile. a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 38 Sethe a mawdelarde, þat fat is þenne, And cut in peses. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Fatte by feading, as in a francke or penne, altilis. 1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 85 The Party..concluded, it was to see whether he or she was fattest and fittest to kill. 1849 Ld. Houghton Let. 17 Dec. in T. W. Reid Life Ld. Houghton (1890) I. x. 439 Fat beasts sold for the price they were bought lean. 1890 Daily News 21 Nov. 5/3 Animals which..have won prizes as ‘fat’, that is to say, as ripe for the butcher. 2. a. Of animals or human beings, their limbs, etc.: In well-fed condition, plump; well supplied with fat (see B.). ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > broad shape or physique > [adjective] > fat or plump fatc893 frimOE fullOE overfatOE greatOE bald1297 roundc1300 encorsivea1340 fattishc1369 fleshyc1369 fleshlyc1374 repletea1398 largec1405 corsious1430 corpulentc1440 corsyc1440 fulsome1447 portlyc1487 corporate1509 foggy fata1529 corsive1530 foggish?1537 plump1545 fatty1552 fleshful1552 pubble1566 plum1570 pursy1576 well-fleshed1576 gross?1577 fog1582 forfatted1586 gulchy1598 bouksome1600 fat-fed1607 meatified1607 chuff1609 plumpya1616 bloat1638 blowze-like1647 obese1651 jollya1661 bloated1664 chubbed1674 pluffya1689 puffya1689 pussy1688 sappy1694 crummy1718 chubby1722 fodgel1724 well-padded1737 beefy1743 plumpish1753 pudsy1754 rotund1762 portable1770 lusty1777 roundabout1787 well-cushioned1802 plenitudinous1803 stout1804 embonpointc1806 roly-poly1808 adipose1810 roll-about1815 foggy1817 poddy1823 porky1828 hide-blown1834 tubby1835 stoutish1836 tubbish1836 superfatted1841 pottle-bodied1842 pincushiony1851 opulent1882 well-covered1884 well-upholstered1886 butterball1888 endomorphic1888 tisty-tosty1888 pachyntic1890 barrel-bodied1894 overweight1899 pussy-gutted1906 upholstered1924 the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [adjective] > fed or nourished > well fed or nourished fatc893 well-nourishedc1300 full-feedinga1382 well-feda1398 feasted1440 well-nurturedc1450 home-fed1573 corn-fed1576 stall-fed1589 repleted1592 well-feasted1611 high-fed1612 succulent1673 corn-fed1787 c893 tr. Orosius Hist. iv. xiii. §5 Ge sindon nu utan fætte & innan hlæne. a1000 Deut. xxxi. 20 & þonne hig etaþ & fulle beoþ & fætte. c1175 Lamb. Hom. 81 [He] luueð his sunnen alse deð þet fette swin þet fule fen to liggen in. c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 72 Hit regibeð anan ase feat meare & idel. 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 429 Ballede he was, & þycke of breste, of body vat also. 1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. x. 208 Faitours in frere cloþynge hadde fatte chekus. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 4566 Þe seuen of þaim..were selcuth fat and fair ky. a1500 (?c1450) Merlin xiv. 227 Her flessh whitter than snowe, and was not to fatte ne to sklender. a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) v. v. 13 A Windsor Stagge, and the fattest (I thinke) i'th Forrest. View more context for this quotation 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §899 The Beare, the Hedge-hog..wax Fat when they Sleepe. 1668 W. Davenant Man's the Master ii. i The chief reason why I am not fat is..because I am in love with three of our neighbours' maids. 1731 J. Arbuthnot Ess. Nature Aliments vi. 88 You may see in an Army forty thousand Foot-Soldiers without a fat Man. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth V. 45 Their bodies are fat and muscular. 1864 Princess Alice in Mem. (1884) 78 My fat Baby..is a great darling. 1883 J. Gilmour Among Mongols viii. 101 The Mongols like to be careful of their camels, even when they are fat and strong. absolute.c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 9702 No durste þær bilæuen na þæ uatte no þe læne. b. In unfavourable sense: Overcharged with fat, corpulent, obese. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > [adjective] > having good, natural, or material resources > having plentiful resources or abundance fatOE broadOE plentyc1425 OE Riddle 40 105 Mara ic eom ond fættra þonne amæsted swin. c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. (MS. B) 5 Of seknesse of a wommans tetys to grete to fatte oþere to lene. 1494 R. Fabyan New Chron. Eng. vi. clviii. 147 Bernulphus knyghtes were fatte, corpolent, and shorte breth. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 3068 A necke..nawþer fulsom, ne fat, but fetis & round. 1602 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor iv. v. 22 There was a fat woman with me. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iv. x. 204 They are generally fat..and ranck of the savours which attend upon sluttish corpulency. View more context for this quotation 1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1783 II. 450 Talking of a man who was grown very fat, so as to be incommoded with corpulency. 1856 J. W. Carlyle Lett. II. 294 So fat a man one rarely sees. c. figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > [adjective] > in easy circumstances fat1526 bean-fed1889 sitting pretty1915 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. MMMvi^v He is fat of my benefytes and good dedes. 1558 Bp. T. Watson Holsome Doctr. Seuen Sacramentes i. f. i^v By the sacrament..we are nourished to euerlasting lyfe, and made fat with God. 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iii. ii. 180 Aduantage feedes him fat while men delay. View more context for this quotation 1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice i. iii. 45 I will feede fat the auncient grudge I beare him. View more context for this quotation 1611 Bible (King James) Prov. xi. 25. 1620 T. May Heir i. i, in W. C. Hazlitt Dodsley's Sel. Coll. Old Eng. Plays (1875) XI. 515 'Twill feed me fat with sport, that it shall make. d. figurative in vulgar phrase to cut up fat: see to cut up 11 at cut v. Phrasal verbs. e. Of larger size than is usual; large in comparison with others of the same species. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [adjective] > distinguishing objects of the same kind large1688 fat1877 1877 Encycl. Brit. VII. 368/2 The Fat Dormouse (Myoxus glis) is larger than the British species. 1877 Gardeners' Chron. 30 June 8/3 Nuts well supplied with flesh, or what is technically called ‘fat nuts’. f. fat herring n. = mattie n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > fish > herring herringa700 white herring1469 meat herring1668 mattie1721 trash1749 Glasgow magistrate1833 crown fulls1854 full1854 fat herring1863 matjes herring1939 the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > subclass Actinopterygii > order Clupeiformes > [noun] > family Clupeidae and herrings > member of > in good condition mattie1721 fat herring1863 1863 Rep. Commiss. Herring-trawling Scotl. §51. 26 The herring is found under four different conditions: 1st, Fry or Sill; 2d, Maties or Fat Herring; 3d, Full Herring; 4th, Shotten or Spent Herring. 1883 F. M. Wallem Fish Supply Norway 15 The Norwegian fat herring is considered to be the very best herring in the world. 1967 Oceanogr. & Marine Biol. 5 436 The ‘fat’ herring fishery, exploiting one-to-four-year-old, adolescent fish. 3. a. transferred. Of things: Thick, full-bodied, substantial; spec. of printing types. Also †to beat fat (Typog.): see quot. 1683. †Of the voice: Full. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > thickness > [adjective] > thick thickc888 fata1325 tun-greatc1405 crassy1630 junky1825 the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [adjective] > of large volume or bulky > and solid greateOE stour?a1300 fata1325 mightyc1375 sternc1394 stiffc1400 massivec1425 mastiff1495 gross1516 massy1548 robustious1548 mountainousa1616 monumental1632 mountain1633 lusty1640 beamy1697 material1736 Himalayan1878 wodgy1907 monolith1922 society > communication > printing > types, blocks, or plates > relating to type > [adjective] > thick, full-bodied type black-faced1827 fat1841 a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2104 .vii. eares wexen fette of coren. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. cxxxi. 1388 Þe voices beþ fatte and þikke whan moche spirit comeþ oute, as þe voice of a man. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball ii. xlii. 200 The white lillie his leaues be..somewhat thicke or fat. 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 i. ii. 126 There are..traders riding to London with fat purses. View more context for this quotation 1676 J. Moxon Regulæ Trium Ordinum 5 The..Draughts of the Letters will shew him what parts of a Letter must be fat or lean. 1676 J. Moxon Regulæ Trium Ordinum 7 The Stem or Broad stroke in a Letter is called the Fat stroke. 1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. Dict. 369 Beat Fat, If a Press-man Takes too much Inck with his Balls, he Beats Fat. The Black English Faced Letter is generally Beaten Fat. 1787 G. Winter New Syst. Husbandry 247 The leaves of the seeds..appeared twice as fat or thick. 1841 W. Savage Dict. Art of Printing Fat Face or Fat Letter is a letter with a broad stem. 1867 G. P. Marsh in Nation 3 Jan. The substitution of full-faced—I have heard it called fat by printers..small letter for capitals. b. Nautical (see quot. 1704). ΚΠ 1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. ii. 4 If it [sc. the Tuck] lie too low it makes her haue a fat quarter. 1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I. (at cited word) If the Trussing in, or Tuck of a Ships Quarter under Water, be deep: They say she hath a Fat Quarter. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. (at cited word) c. Of a spark. ΚΠ 1902 J. E. Hutton in A. C. Harmsworth et al. Motors & Motor-driving (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) viii. 162 The magneto machine itself seems, and is, inexhaustible... It also gives a fine ‘fat’ spark, which adds to the efficiency of the explosion. II. With respect to the component parts. 4. a. Containing much fat, oil, etc.; consisting of fat, greasy, oily, unctuous. to cut it (too) fat: lit. referring to a slice of meat, figurative (vulgar) to make a display. See cut v. 8b. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > oiliness or greasiness > [adjective] > fatty or greasy fatc1000 fattya1398 tallowyc1440 seamya1529 tallowish1552 smeary1582 fattish1589 greasy1592 pinguedinous1599 enseamed1604 pingui-substance1621 pinguid1635 axungious1658 pinguious1705 sevous1726 suety1730 sebaceous1783 pinguitudinous1827 crassy1858 the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > make ostentatious display or show off [verb (intransitive)] brandishc1340 ruffle1484 braga1556 swash1556 flourish1563 flaunt1566 prank1567 prink1573 to shake, wag the feather1581 peacockize1598 air1605 display1608 to launch it out1608 flasha1616 to cut it out1619 flare1633 vapour1652 peacock1654 spark1676 to gallantrize it1693 bosh1709 glare1712 to cut a bosh1726 to show away1728 to figure away, off1749 parade1749 to cut a dashc1771 dash1786 to cut up1787 to cut a flash1795 to make, or cut, a splash1804 swank1809 to come out strong1825 to cut a spludge1831 to cut it (too) fat1836 pavonize1838 splurge1844 to do the grand1847 to cut a swath1848 to cut a splurge1860 to fan out1860 spread1860 skyre1871 fluster1876 to strut one's stuff1926 showboat1937 floss1938 style1968 society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > moral or spiritual impurity > indecency > [adjective] > lewd, bawdy, or obscene lewdc1386 filthy?c1400 knavishc1405 sensual?a1425 ribaldousc1440 dishonestc1450 bawdya1513 ribald?a1513 ribaldious?1518 slovenly?1518 ribaldry1519 priapish1531 ribaldish?1533 filthous1551 ribaldly1570 obscene1571 bawdisha1586 obscenous1591 greasy1598 dirty1599 fulsome1600 spurcitious1658 lasciviating1660 smutty1668 bawdry1764 ribaldric1796 un-Quakerlike1824 fat1836 ithyphallic1856 hot1892 rorty1898 rude1919 bitchy1928 feelthy1930 raunchy1943 ranchy1959 down and dirty1969 steamy1970 sleazo1972 c1000 Ags. Ps. lxxx. 15 [lxxxi. 16] He hi fedde mid fætre lynde, hwæte and hunige. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 995 Bræd..smeredd wel wiþ ele sæw & makedd fatt & nesshe. 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xii. 264 Þe larke..of flesch, by fele folde fatter and swetter. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 159/1 Fet, or fatte, as flesshe and oþer lyke, pinguis. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 147 Fatte and newe milke. 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 Epil. 25 If you bee not too much cloyd with fatte meate. View more context for this quotation 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 427 It shalbe needfull..to vse some fat broth. 1638 W. Rawley tr. F. Bacon Hist. Nat. & Exper. Life & Death 41 Mixed with Tallow, or any Fat Thing. 1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 201 The Milk..is so fat, that it makes a Cream two fingers thick. 1701 J. Addison Let. from Italy 134 The fat Olive. 1824 L. L. Cameron Hist. Marten & Two Little Scholars (new ed.) vii. 43 This nice fat cheese which brother gave me. 1836 W. Irving Astoria II. 205 Which he began to relish, pronouncing them ‘fat and tender’. 1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. I. 143 Promenading about..with surprising dignity (or as the gentleman in the next box facetiously observes, ‘cutting it uncommon fat!’). 1842 Comic Almanac 49 A goose, even tailors have, who cut it fat. †b. transferred. Of figs: Full of juice, juicy. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > fig > [adjective] > juicy fat1398 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [adjective] > of or resembling tropical fruits > of or like a fig fikec975 fat1398 ficoid1884 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) v. xv. 121 Leues of trees in whyche is fatte humour fallith not. c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 212 Medle þerwiþ fatte figis. 1656 J. Smith Compl. Pract. Physick 292 Take fat Figs 12 oz. c. Of an actor's part, offering abundant opportunity for skill, display, etc.; of speeches, etc., impressive, effective. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > part or character > [adjective] > types of part or character protatic1658 fat1758 melpomenish1801 heavy1814 starring1833 Polonian1847 supporting1863 Polonial1872 actor-proof1893 Ophelian1903 1758 W. Toldervy Hist. Two Orphans III. 157 He..sings as many fat songs as the best man in the Garden. 1901 C. Morris Life on Stage xix. 139 What is vulgarly known to-day as a ‘fat’ part, ‘fat’ meaning lines sure to provoke applause. 1910 P. G. Wodehouse Gentleman of Leisure xv. 158 True acting part, the biggest in the piece, full of fat lines. d. Of wood: Resinous (U.S.); also †of amber. Of coal: Bituminous. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > other vegetable materials > plant resin > [adjective] > containing or yielding resin resinaceous1664 resiniferous1675 rosinaceous1675 fat1697 resino-vitreous1811 the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > hydrocarbon minerals > [adjective] > coal > bituminous or sub-bituminous fat1831 sub-bituminous1835 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals viii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 77 Fat Amber let the Tamarisk distil. 1831 J. Macculloch Syst. Geol. II. xliv. 356 A resinous plant such as fir..would produce a fatter coal than an oak, because the resin itself is converted into bitumen. 1836 C. P. Traill Backwoods of Canada 234 The resinous substance called fat-pine being usually found in places where the living pine is least abundant. 1856 F. L. Olmsted Journey Slave States 335 The room was filled with smoke of the fat light-wood. 1877 R. I. Dodge Hunting Grounds Great West xxxvi. 393 They [the Indians] procured some ‘fat’ pine knots. 1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining Fat Coals, those which contain volatile, oily matters. 5. Of mould, clay, etc.: containing much soluble or plastic matter; having a ‘greasy’ feeling to the touch; sticky. Of limestone: containing much lime, and few impurities; (hence) pure. Of quicklime: nearly pure, and therefore slaking easily. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > [adjective] > sticky or containing much soluble matter fatc1503 the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > attachment > [adjective] > attached by something adhesive > having adhesive quality cleavingc1350 holdingc1400 withholdingc1430 fatc1503 gluing1572 adhering1592 viscous1605 tenacious1648 birdlimey1657 adhesive1661 agglutinating1664 sticky1688 clingy1708 adherescent1743 tacky1788 detainable1801 detentive1881 stickfast1888 stick-on1904 c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. lxiiij/1 Y^e erthe muste..be neyther too fat ne to grauelly. 1546 in State Papers Henry VIII (1852) XI. 335 The grounde of the countrey..is so fatte, that if it rayne there three dayes..the ordinaunce wolde sticke..in the myre. 1563 W. Fulke Goodle Gallerye Causes Meteors ii. f. 14^v A Comete is an Exhalation..fat and clammye, harde compacte lyke a greate lompe of pitche. 1611 Bible (King James) Song Three Children i. 22 (margin) Naphtha, which is a certaine kind of fat and chalkie clay. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 116 Fat Pitch, and black Bitumen, add to these. View more context for this quotation 1700 Moxon's Mech. Exercises: Bricklayers-wks. 2 A fat Earth full of Allom. 1787 G. Winter New Syst. Husbandry 332 It appeared very fat between the fingers. 1794 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) I. 116 The distinction of fat and meagre limestones. 1843 J. E. Portlock Rep. Geol. Londonderry 682 The fat clay..is mixed with a meagre or sandy clay. 1904 G. F. Goodchild & C. F. Tweney Technol. & Sci. Dict. 216/2 Fat Lime, a nearly pure lime (calcined white chalk). †6. Full of stimulating elements, rich. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > fertilizing or manuring > [adjective] fatty1590 fructiferous1632 fattening1697 fat1707 1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 268 Fat, warm and subtile Nourishments. 1797 J. Wolcot Ode to Livery of London in Wks. (1812) III. 441 Pine-apples ne'er grow on cold raw clay But fat manure. 7. Of fluids: Charged with solid or extraneous particles. †a. Of water: Thick, turbid. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > pollution or defilement > [adjective] > full of sediment fata1387 puddled1559 roiled1611 roil1658 scuddy1797 riley1805 roily1823 riled1830 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 259 Fatte water. 1587 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. vi. i. 160 The fattest standing water is alwaies the best. 1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 213 This Serpent is bredde in fatte waters and soyles. 1714 Philos. Trans. 1713 (Royal Soc.) 28 233 When the Water is fattest and fullest of Foam. †b. Of wine or ale: Fruity, full-bodied, sugary. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > sweetness > [adjective] sweetc888 sootc950 doucea1350 sweetlya1350 softa1398 lusciousc1420 dulcet1440 mellite?1440 sugarishc1450 dulce1508 ambrosiana1522 figgy?1549 nut-sweet1586 nectaredc1595 dulcid1596 marmalady1602 fat1610 unsharp1611 unsour1611 marmalade1617 dulcorous1676 dulceous1688 saccharaceous1689 sugar-candyish1852 saccharic1945 the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > types or qualities of intoxicating liquor > [adjective] > fruity or sugary fat1610 1610 Bible (Douay) II. Ezek. xxvii. 18 The Damacene was thy merchant..in fatte wine. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. iii. 102 These Cloysters haue a brauer life for good cheare [and] fat Wines..than any..Friers can elsewhere find. 1816 W. Scott Antiquary xi A species of fat ale. c. Of air, mist, etc.: Charged with moisture or odours; dense. rare. †Of a room: Full of dense air. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > [adjective] strongOE savouringc1384 breatheda1398 flairinga1400 smellinga1400 odorifere?a1425 odorous?a1425 smellablec1449 odoranta1465 odoriferousc1487 odiferousa1500 odoureda1500 odiferant1509 redolent?a1513 reflairing1523 odoriferantc1550 scenting1577 odorable1589 breathful1593 fat1598 olent1607 smelled1617 odorific1685 tainted1704 odourful1889 osmic1912 the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being slightly wet > [adjective] moista1382 moistfula1398 undriedc1440 wak1513 mocha1522 humorous1526 humidc1550 dabby1581 fat1598 unparched1599 moistish1610 dampisha1642 weakya1642 rafty1655 dampya1691 damp1706 mochy1794 danky1820 the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > fetor > [adjective] > fusty or musty > of air or atmosphere fustya1529 mustya1529 fat1598 frowzy1681 musty-smelling1852 musty-fusty1857 the world > matter > gas > air > [adjective] > specific qualities of (the) air > thick or turbid troublyc1380 greata1398 murkc1480 mistyc1485 foggyc1487 troublea1500 grossa1592 fat1598 filthya1616 thick1626 murky1667 turbid1705 solid1807 the world > matter > gas > air > [adjective] > specific qualities of (the) air > thick or turbid > full of thick air fat1598 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > pollution or defilement > environmental pollution > [adjective] > bad air > not ventilated fat1598 airlessa1616 unaired1682 unventilated1712 unperflated1768 mochy1825 fuggy1888 fugged1971 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. v. 1 Come out of that fat roome. View more context for this quotation 1659 R. Lovelace Poems (1864) 186 When a fat mist we view, we coughing run. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals viii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 38 Make fat with Frankincense the sacred Fires. 1837 R. W. Emerson Oration before Phi Beta Kappa Soc. 25 Public and private avarice make the air we breathe thick and fat. †d. See quot. 1683. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. Dict. 375 Fat Ashes, Founders call their Ashes Fat, if they are considerably Heavy, because then they have much Mettle in them. 8. fat oil or oils: in various senses (see quots.). ΚΠ ?1790 J. Imison Curious & Misc. Articles (new ed.) 37 in School of Arts (ed. 2) Take four ounces of fat oil, very clear, and made of good linseed oil. 1838 T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 433 Fat oils become solid by long exposure. 1875 J. C. Wilcocks Sea Fisherman 179 Train-oil, a name given to it on the spot to distinguish it from whale, or seal oil..called fat-oil. 1877 H. Watts Dict. Chem. IV. 179 Fat or fixed oils..resemble one another in not being capable of distilling without decomposition. III. With reference to the amount of produce or supply. 9. Yielding or capable of yielding excellent and abundant returns. a. Of land: Fertile, rich. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > [adjective] goodOE bearinglOE freshc1325 fat1393 plentive?a1400 fertilec1460 richa1522 fructual1528 batwell1534 battle?1542 battling1548 increaseful1594 uberousa1627 exuberanta1660 generous1661 productive1672 innerly1868 oasal1888 oasitic1896 1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xiii. 224 On fat londes and ful of donge foulest wedes groweth. c1420 Pallad. on Husb. i. 72 To see thi lande..fatte and swete. 1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 112^v The fat ground. 1673 W. Cave Primitive Christianity i. i. 5 The blood of Christians making the Churches soil more fat and fertile. 1777 W. Robertson Hist. Amer. (1783) II. 98 The roots..multiply amazingly with the heat of the climate in a fat soil. 1827 R. Pollok Course of Time I. iii. 124 Turned fat lands To barrenness. 1851 D. Jerrold St. Giles & St. James (new ed.) xi, in Writings I. 103 The broad, fat fields of Kent lay smiling in the sun. b. of a source of income (e.g. a benefice, office). ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > wealth > wealth or riches > [adjective] > rich (of a source of wealth) fatc1380 goldmine1909 c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 519 Ȝif þe benefice be faat. 1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xli. 253 To leaue his old poore place, for a fatter rowme. 1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 42 I would wish him the biggest and the fattest Bishoprick. 1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 228. ⁋1 A worthy Gentleman has lately offered me a fat Rectory. 1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond I. iii. 80 Church! priesthood! fat living! 1883 American 6 38 Congress as the creator of fat jobs. 1884 Manch. Examiner 17 Nov. 5/3 His fat sheriffship. c. of a dispute or suit at law. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > action of courts in claims or grievances > [adjective] > other types of action or suit real1444 popular1490 fat1644 pre-judicial1651 quantum valebant1827 prejudical1864 adjectician1880 prejudiciary1880 landmark1937 1644 J. Milton Of Educ. 3 The promising and pleasing thoughts of litigious terms, fat contentions, and flowing fees. 1646 J. Cooke Vindic. Professors Law 26 A recreation which they have..to recreate the spirit of the Judges and Advocates, which they call a Fat case. 1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. iii. xiii. 307 Never was such a Lawsuit,—so fat an affair for the attorney species. †d. Of a prisoner: That can pay a good ransom. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > wealth > [adjective] > having large amount of money > that can pay a large amount fat1548 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. cxxiij^v So with greate riches, and fatte prisoners, he returned again to Paris. Categories » e. Typography. fat take, fat work, in type-setting, work or a piece of work especially profitable to the compositor who works by the piece. Hence, fat page: one having many blank lines or spaces. 10. Well supplied with what is needful or desirable. †a. Of a person: Affluent, wealthy. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > wealth > [adjective] richeOE eadyOE richfulc1300 plenteousc1350 wealthyc1380 wealthfula1400 wlouȝa1400 wellc1405 biga1425 goldedc1450 substantious1490 able1516 opulent?1518 substantive1543 strong1581 fat1611 juicy1627 fortuned1632 affluent1652 rhinocerical1688 rough1721 rowthy1792 golden1797 strong-handed1817 well-to-do1831 wealth-encumbered1844 nabobish1857 rhinoceral1860 ingoted1864 tinny1871 pocket-filled1886 oofy1896 nawabi1955 brewstered2001 1611 Bible (King James) Psalms xcii. 14 They [the righteous] shalbe fat, & flourishing. View more context for this quotation 1679 R. South Serm. Several Occasions 265 Persons grown fatt & Wealthy by a long and successfull Imposture. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Fat Cull, a rich fellow. a1764 R. Lloyd Fam. Epist. from Hanbury's Ho. 19 Mark the fat Cit, whose good round sum, Amounts at least to half a Plumb. b. Of things: Abundant, plentiful; esp. of a feast, pasture, etc. Also, Well-stocked. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > [adjective] goodeOE broadOE fullOE large?c1225 rifec1225 fulsomea1325 abundanta1382 plenteousa1382 copiousc1384 plentifula1400 ranka1400 aboundc1425 affluentc1425 aboundable?1440 seedy1440 manyfulc1450 ample1472 olda1500 richa1500 flowing1526 fertilent1535 wallingc1540 copy1546 abounding1560 fat1563 numbrous1566 good, great store1569 round1592 redundant1594 fruitful1604 cornucopian1609 much1609 plenty?a1610 pukka1619 redundant1621 uberant1622 swelling1628 uberous1633 numerousa1635 superfluent1648 full tide1649 lucky1649 redounding1667 numerose1692 bumper1836 prolific1890 proliferous1915 the mind > possession > supply > [adjective] > provided or supplied with something > stocked or stored with > well-stocked (with) well-stored?a1425 stuffedc1440 replenished1548 well-laden1570 well-stocked1604 locuplete1609 fat1758 1563 2nd Tome Homelyes Gluttony & Drunkenness, in J. Griffiths Two Bks. Homilies (1859) ii. 306 He that loveth wine and fat fare shall never be rich. 1587 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Iland Brit. (new ed.) i. xviii. 110/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I The best and fattest pasturages. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 267 Finalie returnes With a fatt praii. 1611 Bible (King James) Ezek. xxxiv. 14 In a fat pasture shall they feede. View more context for this quotation 1677 A. Yarranton England's Improvem. 28 Scotland is a thin and lean Kingdom..England is a fat Kingdom. 1758 B. Franklin Poor Richard's Almanack 16 A fat Kitchen makes a lean Will. c. a fat lot: a large amount, a great deal: always ironical and implying ‘very little, hardly anything’. Similarly a fat chance, implying ‘hardly any opportunity (or possibility)’; also (New Zealand) a fat show. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > small of quantity, amount, or degree [phrase] > very little no (none) such1579 next to nothing1596 a fat lot1892 not such (a)1896 the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > improbability, unlikeliness > [noun] > remote chance a hundred to one1647 a million to one1678 long odds1764 long shot1796 off-chance1844 long chance1854 outside chance1867 a fat chance1892 to have a Chinaman's chance1915 1892 I. Zangwill Children of Ghetto (1893) i. ii. 24 ‘I von't sell you no more tickets,’ said Sugarman... ‘A fat lot I care,’ said Becky, tossing her curls. 1899 C. J. C. Hyne Further Adventures Capt. Kettle i. 5 Shows what a fat lot of influence this État du Congo has got. 1906 F. Metcalfe Side Show Studies 99 The Proprietor..suggested sending the announcement..to the papers. ‘A fat chance I'd stand of having it printed,’ he grumbled. 1908 ‘I. Hay’ Right Stuff vi. 83 Rot! Fat lot you know about it, Dilly. 1914 D. H. Lawrence Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd iii. 72 Some women could have lived with him happy enough. An' a fat lot you'd have thanked me for my telling. 1916 J. S. Clouston Two's Two ix. 69 ‘And a fat lot of good they'll be!’ scoffed Archibald. 1922 S. Lewis Babbitt v. 63 Fat chance! 1933 W. S. Maugham Sheppey iii. 75 Fat chance I've got of going to France now. 1936 P. G. Wodehouse Laughing Gas viii. 88 A fat chance, of course. I should have known his psychology better. 1947 A. Vogt in D. M. Davin N.Z. Short Stories (1953) 374 The men from the mill..had a fat chance of getting in [to the pub] before that [6 p.m.]. 1948 D. Ballantyne Cunninghams i. xii. 70 It would be corker if he could go outside with Carole Plowman... Fat show! 1951 E. Coxhead One Green Bottle i. 23 Idiot, thought Cathy. Fat lot you know. 1962 Coast to Coast 1961–2 87 You're a fat lot of help to me, moping about alone all the time. 1967 B. Wright tr. R. Queneau Between Blue & Blue xix. 208 Fat lot of use it was me getting my posterior frozen for a whole night to do my host a favour. IV. Senses relating to sloth or complacancy. 11. Displaying the characteristics of a fat animal; slow-witted, indolent, self-complacent. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupidity, dullness of intellect > [adjective] sloweOE stuntc960 dullOE hardOE stuntlyc1000 sotc1050 dillc1175 dulta1225 simplea1325 heavy1340 astonedc1374 sheepishc1380 dull-witteda1387 lourd1390 steerishc1411 ass-likea1425 brainless?a1439 deafc1440 sluggishc1450 short-witted1477 obtuse1509 peakish1519 wearish1519 deaf, or dumb as a beetle1520 doileda1522 gross1526 headlessa1530 stulty1532 ass-headed1533 pot-headed1533 stupid?1541 sheep's head1542 doltish1543 dumpish1545 assish1548 blockish1548 slow-witted1548 blockheaded1549 surd1551 dull-headed1552 hammer-headed1552 skit-brained?1553 buzzardly1561 witless1562 log-headeda1566 assy1566 sottish1566 dastardly1567 stupidious1567 beetle-headed1570 calvish1570 bluntish1578 cod's-headed1578 grout-headed1578 bedaft1579 dull-pated1580 blate1581 buzzard-like1581 long-eared1582 dullard1583 woodena1586 duncical1588 leaden-headed1589 buzzard1592 dorbellical1592 dunstical1592 heavy-headeda1593 shallow-brained1592 blunt-witted1594 mossy1597 Bœotian1598 clay-brained1598 fat1598 fat-witted1598 knotty-pated1598 stupidous1598 wit-lost1599 barren1600 duncifiedc1600 lourdish1600 stockish1600 thick1600 booby1603 leaden-pated1603 partless1603 thin-headed1603 leaden-skulledc1604 blockhead1606 frost-brained1606 ram-headed1608 beef-witted1609 insulse1609 leaden-spirited1609 asininec1610 clumse1611 blockheadly1612 wattle-headed1613 flata1616 logger-headeda1616 puppy-headeda1616 shallow-patedc1616 thick-brained1619 half-headed1621 buzzard-blinda1625 beef-brained1628 toom-headed1629 thick-witted1634 woollen-witted1635 squirrel-headed1637 clod-pated1639 lean-souled1639 muddy-headed1642 leaden-witteda1645 as sad as any mallet1645 under-headed1646 fat-headed1647 half-witted1647 insipid1651 insulsate1652 soft-headed1653 thick-skulleda1657 muddish1658 non-intelligent1659 whey-brained1660 sap-headed1665 timber-headed1666 leather-headeda1668 out of (one's) tree1669 boobily1673 thoughtless1673 lourdly1674 logger1675 unintelligenta1676 Bœotic1678 chicken-brained1678 under-witted1683 loggerhead1684 dunderheaded1692 unintelligible1694 buffle-headed1697 crassicc1700 numbskulled1707 crassous1708 doddy-polled1708 haggis-headed1715 niddy-noddy1722 muzzy1723 pudding-headed1726 sumphish1728 pitcher-souleda1739 duncey1743 hebete1743 chuckheaded1756 dumb1756 duncely1757 imbecile1766 mutton-headed1768 chuckle-headed1770 jobbernowl1770 dowfarta1774 boobyish1778 wittol1780 staumrel1787 opaquec1789 stoopid1791 mud-headed1793 borné1795 muzzy-headed1798 nog-headed1800 thick-headed1801 gypit1804 duncish1805 lightweight1809 numbskull1814 tup-headed1816 chuckle-pate1820 unintellectuala1821 dense1822 ninnyish1822 dunch1825 fozy1825 potato-headed1826 beef-headed1828 donkeyish1831 blockheadish1833 pinheaded1837 squirrel-minded1837 pumpkin-headed1838 tomfoolish1838 dundering1840 chicken-headed1842 like a bump on a log1842 ninny-minded1849 numbheadeda1852 nincompoopish1852 suet-brained1852 dolly1853 mullet-headed1853 sodden1853 fiddle-headed1854 numb1854 bovine1855 logy1859 crass1861 unsmart1861 off his chump1864 wooden-headed1865 stupe1866 lean-minded1867 duffing1869 cretinous1871 doddering1871 thick-head1873 doddling1874 stupido1879 boneheaded1883 woolly-headed1883 leaden-natured1889 suet-headed1890 sam-sodden1891 dopey1896 turnip-headed1898 bonehead1903 wool-witted1905 peanut-headed1906 peanut-brained1907 dilly1909 torpid-minded1909 retardate1912 nitwitted1917 meat-headed1918 mug1922 cloth-headed1925 loopy1925 nitwit1928 lame-brained1929 dead from the neck up1930 simpy1932 nail-headed1936 square-headed1936 dingbats1937 pinhead1939 dim-witted1940 pea-brained1942 clueless1943 lobotomized1943 retarded1949 pointy-headed1950 clottish1952 like a stunned mullet1953 silly (or crazy) as a two-bob watch1954 out to lunch1955 pin-brained1958 dozy1959 eejity1964 out of one's tiny mind1965 doofus1967 twitty1967 twittish1969 twatty1975 twattish1976 blur1977 dof1979 goofus1981 dickheaded1991 dickish1991 numpty1992 cockish1996 the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > sloth or laziness > [adjective] sweerc725 foridledc1230 idlea1300 faintc1325 recrayed1340 slewful1340 nicea1398 sleuthya1400 delicate?c1400 sleuthfulc1400 slothfulc1400 sloth1412 lurdanc1480 luskinga1500 luskish15.. droning1509 bumbard?a1513 slottery1513 desidiousa1540 lazy1549 slovening1549 truanta1550 sleuth1567 litherly1573 truantly1579 dronish1580 lubberly1580 truant-like1583 shiftless1584 sluggard1594 fat1598 lusky1604 sweatless1606 clumse1611 easeful1611 loselly1611 do-littlea1613 sluggardisha1627 pigritious1638 drony1653 murcid1656 thokisha1682 shammockinga1704 indolent1710 huddroun1721 nothing-doing1724 desidiose1727 lusk1775 slack-twisted1794 sweert1817 bone-lazya1825 lurgy1828 straight-backed1830 do-nothing1832 slobbish1833 bone idle1836 slouch1837 lotophagous1841 shammocky1841 bein1847 thoky1847 lotus-eating1852 fainéant1855 sluggardly1865 lazy-boned1875 do-naught1879 easy-going1879 lazyish1892 slobbed1962 the mind > emotion > pleasure > contentment or satisfaction > self-satisfaction > [adjective] smug1551 fat1598 self-contented1631 self-pleased1633 self-satisfied1653 self-contenta1656 self-complacent1736 self-gratulating1755 complacent1767 well1773 self-congratulatory1798 comfortable1856 paddy1865 Podsnappian1866 cosy1927 the mind > emotion > pride > self-esteem > complacency > [adjective] fat1598 self-contented1631 self-pleased1633 self-satisfied1653 self-contenta1656 complacing1669 self-complacentiala1711 self-complacinga1711 self-complacent1736 complacent1767 pinguid1768 unctuous1822 paddy1865 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 268 Wel-liking Wits they haue grosse grosse, fat fat. View more context for this quotation 1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. v. 32 Duller shouldst thou be Then the fat weede which rootes it selfe in ease. 1611 Bible (King James) Isa. vi. 10 Make the heart of this people fat, and make their eares heauy, and shut their eyes. View more context for this quotation a1625 J. Fletcher Wit without Money (1639) i. sig. B1 Grounding their fat faithes upon old Countrey proverbes. 1790 E. Burke Wks. (1871) II. 373 The fat stupidity and gross ignorance. a1822 P. B. Shelley Peter Bell III iv, in Poet. Wks. (?1840) 242/2 With loose fat smile, The willing wretch sat winking there. a1854 J. Wilson in Webster's Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. (1890) How could it enter into his fat heart to conceive [etc.]. 1879 Temple Bar No. 227 A fat smile of complacent wisdom on his face. V. Other uses. 12. With the senses mixed. ΚΠ c1325 Poem Times Edw. II 188 in Pol. Songs (Camden) 332 The frere wole to the direge, if the cors is fat. 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. v. 517 Sher. A grosse fat man. Car. As fat as butter. View more context for this quotation 1611 Bible (King James) Psalms cxix. 70 Their heart is as fat as grease. View more context for this quotation 1642 T. Fuller Holy State v. xix. 437 These countreys were fat enough to be stewed in their own liquour. a1732 J. Gay New Song Similes in Songs My cheeks as fat as butter grown. B. n.² 1. a. The adjective used absol. The fat part of anything. †Rarely in plural. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > greasy or fatty material > [noun] > derived from animals smearc725 smolta1000 seamc1200 greasec1290 fat1393 creesha1400 brawn1535 axunge?1541 axungiety1599 axungiousness1599 1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xxii. 280 That cast for to kele a crokke and saue þe fatte aboue. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Lev. xvii. 6 Burne the fat for a swete sauoure vnto the Lord. ?a1547 Ten Recipes Henry VIII in Vicary's Anat. Bodie of Man (1888) App. ix. 222 Take, the fatte of capons or hennys. 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique i. ix. 42 He shal make prouision of fats or of the marrowes of the bones of mutton. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 439 Then sacrificing, laid The Inwards and thir Fat..On the cleft Wood. View more context for this quotation 1748 H. Glasse Art of Cookery (ed. 3) ix. 205 Pour the Fat out of the Pan. 1890 Mrs. Beeton Cookery Bk. 19/1 Droppings of fat and gravy..fall from the roast meat. b. plural or (in attributive use only) collective singular. Fat cattle or sheep. Australian and New Zealand. ΚΠ 1886 C. Scott Pract. Sheep-farming 137 Sheep intended for the fat market. 1894 A. Robertson Nuggets 132 What say ye to him goin' to Melbourne to see the flock o' fats sold at the Flemington Yards? 1907 W. H. Koebel Return of Joe 20 The only different thing you'll see, I hope, will be a larger mob of fats. 1921 H. Guthrie-Smith Tutira xxxvi. 362 I remember..watching the well-known dealer, Andrew Grant, picking ‘fats’. 1936 I. L. Idriess Cattle King ix. 77 Drovers with their plants were coming in increasing numbers to drove to distant markets the growing herds of ‘fats’. 1954 B. Miles Stars my Blanket xxiii. 199 Their four-year-olds..will be trucked to the factories as ‘fats’. 1969 Sunday Mail Mag. (Brisbane) 5 Oct. 2/1 We were mustering fats along the channels of Cooper's Creek. 2. In various transferred senses: †a. The soft part of a fruit or tree. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > cell or aggregate tissue > [noun] > tissue > pith or soft internal tissue marroweOE pitheOE flesh1574 fat1575 pulp1578 medulla1583 brain1601 matrix1633 1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 278 Anoynting the ende of the borowed feather in the fatte of a figge. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 109 The fatte, the softest and the woorst part of the tree. †b. the fat of glass: = French suin de verre, sandiver n., glass-gall n. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > glass and glass-like materials > [noun] > glass-making materials > waste matter in glass production sandiverc1400 fretten1477 the fat of glass1578 collet1662 moil1875 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball 116 That which..swimmeth upon the stuffe whereof Glasses are made, is now called in Shoppes Axungia vitri: in English, the fatte or floure of Glasse. c. The richest or most nourishing part of anything; the choicest produce (of the earth). Hence also: plenty, superabundance. Also U.S. Mining(see quot. 1883). Now rare except in phrase (to eat, live on) the fat of the land. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > prosper or flourish [verb (intransitive)] > be in easy circumstances (to eat, live on) the fat of the land1530 to be laughing1930 to have never had it so good1944 the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > [noun] > plenty or fertility > richest part fatnessc1000 fat1530 sumen1601 1530 Bible (Tyndale) xlv. f. 68^v Ye shall eate the fatt of the londe. 1596 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent (rev. ed.) 247 This Realme..wanted neither the fauour of the Sunne, nor the fat of the Soile. 1611 Bible (King James) Gen. xlv. 18 Ye shall eat the fat of the land . View more context for this quotation 1611 Bible (King James) Deut. xxxii. 14 The fat of kidneis of wheat. 1624 P. Massinger Bond-man i. iii. sig. C2 In this plenty, And fat of peace. a1639 J. Dyke Right Receiving of Christ (1640) xiii. 188 The fat and moysture of the earth. 1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια Isagoge sig. F3 Sulphurs, which are the fat of the earth. 1832 L. Hunt Poems Pref. 9 We have the poetry..of the ‘fat of the land’ in Thomson. 1858 A. Trollope Three Clerks II. viii. 169 For thirteen years he has lived on the fat of the land. 1883 J. H. Beadle Western Wilds xxxv. 584 Here and there..are sometimes found little accretions of pure silver which miners speak of as ‘the fat of the vein’. d. a bit of fat: (an instance of) good fortune; (an opportunity for) profit. colloquial. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > [noun] > good fortune > piece of opportunity?a1425 honeyfall1642 luck in a bag1649 hit1666 godsend1810 stroke of luck1853 bonanza1878 lucky break1889 break1911 a bit of fat1923 snip1932 1923 E. C. Brewer Dict. Phr. & Fable 419/2 A bit of fat, an unexpected stroke of luck; also, the best part of anything. 1936 ‘J. Curtis’ Gilt Kid ii. 19 ‘Where did you graft in Wandsworth?’ ‘Cleaner.’ ‘Blimey, that was a bit of fat for you, wasn't it?’ ‘Yeah, but you couldn't pinch no grub.’ 1951 P. Branch Wooden Overcoat i. 6 He had been acquitted... Cor! What a bit o' fat! I got away with it! 3. Thesaurus » Categories » a. The oily concrete substance of which the fat parts of animal bodies are chiefly composed; any particular variety of this substance. Often modified by a noun prefixed, as beef-, candle-, cow-, mutton-, ox-, etc. fat. b. Chemistry. Any of a class of organic compounds of which animal fat is the type. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > organic chemistry > organic compounds > [noun] > other organic compounds > others fat1539 nitromannite1857 friction-powder1864 nitramidin1866 nitroform1866 phenyl brown1875 ketide1907 tetryl1909 cyclonite1923 pentryl1933 1539 in J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices (modernized text) III. 285/4 1593 Ludlow. Candle fat 12³/ ₄ lb. @/2¹/ ₂. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Fatte or grease, sagina. 1731 J. Arbuthnot Ess. Nature Aliments ii. 21 This Membrane separates an oily Liquor call'd Fat. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth IV. 4 The muscles of the body are very strong, and without fat. 1841 T. R. Jones Gen. Outl. Animal Kingdom xxx. 689 But, beneath the skin, fat has been accumulated in prodigious quantities. 1860 F. Nightingale Notes on Nursing (rev. ed.) vii. 99 Butter is the lightest kind of animal fat. 1884 Athenæum 12 Apr. 465/1 Fats were dear in the early time. 1884 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Fat, a greasy substance consisting of carbon, hydrogen, and a little oxygen..Fats are contained in both plants and animals and are compounds of glycerin with acids, chiefly palmitic, oleic, or stearic. 1891 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 7 Mar. Suppl. 78/1 Fats are digested with the expenditure of a small amount of energy. c. Phrases: †to lick the fat from the beard of: to forestall the results of (a person's) enterprise or industry. †the fat flits from (a man's) beard: he lets go the advantage he has gained. (all) the fat is in the fire: in early use expressing that a design has irremediably failed; now used when some injudicious act has been committed that is sure to provoke a violent explosion of anger. to chew the fat: see chew v. 3h. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > unsuccessful [phrase] > failure of an action or design (all) the fat is in the fire1546 the bottom falls out of1637 the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > unsuccessful [phrase] > loss of advantage gained the fat flits from (a man's) beard1546 the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > precede or come before [verb (transitive)] > anticipate or forestall > the results of an enterprise to lick the fat from the beard of1546 the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > commotion, disturbance, or disorder > in a state of commotion or disorder [phrase] on steerc1480 the devil to paya1500 in (an) uproar1548 the devil rides on a fiddle-stick1598 in motion1598 the devil (and all) to doa1681 (all) the fat is in the fire1797 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. iii. sig. Aiv Than farewell ryches, the fat is in the fyre. 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. iii. sig. Aiv Blame me not to haste, for feare..the fat cleane flyt fro my berde. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. clix^v Other..marchantes..sore abhorryng the Italian nacion, for lickyng the fat from their beardes, and taking from them their accustomed liuyng. 1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Sept. 123 But they that shooten neerest the pricke Sayne, other the fat from their beards doen lick. 1644 Ormonde Let. in Carte Life (1735) III. 281 I hear nothing of the armes, ammunition or provisions, without all which all the fat is in the fire. 1797 J. Wolcot Ode to Livery of London in Wks. (1812) III. 449 Should we once complain The fat will all be in the fire. 1850 T. Carlyle Latter-day Pamphlets iv. 4 The fat in the fire will be a thing worth looking at. 4. The habit of body marked by the deposition of fat; corpulence, obesity. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > broad shape or physique > [noun] > fat or plump shape or physique > state of having fatnessc1000 greasea1340 corsiousnessc1440 fleshiness1541 plumpness1545 corporateness1547 fogginess1547 fleshliness1552 corpulency1577 corpulence1581 corsiness1587 fullness1599 obesity1611 pinguitude1623 obeseness1653 aletude1656 portliness1658 eventriqueness1667 rotundity1684 fat1726 rotundness1727 bloatedness1732 embonpoint1751 roundness1763 repleteness1770 plumpitude1828 corporosity1837 stoutness1838 crumb1843 plumptitude1843 roundedness1849 chubbiness1850 adiposeness1868 roundliness1870 buxomness1875 bloat1905 tubbiness1906 poundage1915 overweight1917 endomorphy1940 plumpishness1947 pudge1967 morbid obesity1969 1726 W. R. Chetwood Voy. & Adventures Capt. R. Boyle 45 The two first [women] were very handsom, a little inclining to Fat. 5. In the phraseology of various trades or occupations, applied to especially lucrative kinds of work. †a. (See quot. 1699). ΚΠ 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Fat, the last landed, inned or stow'd of any sort of Merchandize..so called by the several Gangs of Water-side-Porters. 1785 in F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue b. Printing (see quot. 1841). ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > printed matter > arrangement or appearance of printed matter > [noun] > blank space vantage1683 fat1796 white space1888 printers' fat1898 1796 Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 3) Fat amongst printers means void spaces. 1841 W. Savage Dict. Art of Printing Fat, with compositors, short pages, blank pages, and light open matter: with pressmen, light forms, forms that require one pull at wooden presses. c. Newspaper (see quot. 1890). ΚΠ 1890 Answers 6 Dec. 24 If he [the liner] has a piece of ‘fat’ (that is, a good piece of exclusive news). d. Theatrical, a part with good lines and telling situations, which gives the player an opportunity of appearing to advantage. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > part or character > [noun] > types of part or character underpart1679 persona muta1714 travesty1732 soubrette1753 old man1762 small part?1774 breeches-part1779 character part1811 fat1812 chambermaida1828 fool?1835 raisonneur1845 ingénue1848 villain of the piece1854 stock character1864 feeder1866 satirette1870 character role1871 travesty1887 thinking part1890 walk-on1902 cardboard cutout1906 bit1926 good guy1928 feed1929 bad guy1932 goody1934 walkthrough1935 narrator1941 cameo1950 black hat1959 1812 Dramatic Censor 1811 440 Mr Dowton..did not exhibit any propensity to give us too much of the fat. 1883 Referee 18 Mar. 2/4 They have nothing to do, all the fat having been seized by Terry. 1885 W. C. Day Behind Footlights 116 Lest any of his ‘fat’ should be lost through the self grimaces of his fellow comedian. 1933 P. Godfrey Back-stage iii. 36 An expression which is likely to puzzle the uninitiated is the term ‘fat’. Theatrical ‘fat’ is determined not by the size of the part, but by its effectiveness. Compounds C1. a. General attributive. (a) fat-basis n. ΚΠ 1847–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. IV. i. 129/1 Growths of fat-basis. fat-cell n. ΚΠ 1845 G. E. Day tr. J. F. Simon Animal Chem. I. 355 Some..presented a resemblance to conglomerate fat-cells. fat-corpuscle n. ΚΠ 1847–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. IV. i. 96/1 Deposition of peculiar altered fat-corpuscles. fat-deposit n. ΚΠ 1847–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. IV. i. 96/1 The relationship of fat-deposit to the morbid changes in Bright's disease. fat-drop n. ΚΠ 1861 T. R. Jones Gen. Outl. Animal Kingdom (ed. 3) iii. 40 Dark globules, resembling fat-drops. fat-gland n. ΚΠ 1866 Chambers's Encycl. at Skin The sebaceous or fat glands. fat-globule n. ΚΠ 1846 G. E. Day tr. J. F. Simon Animal Chem. II. 326 Fat-globules were detected under the microscope. fat-granule n. ΚΠ 1847–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. IV. i. 130/2 We have occasionally seen fat granules in these tumours. fat-mass n. ΚΠ 1872 G. M. Humphry Observ. Myology 5 In addition to the four fat-masses disposed with the longitudinal series of vessels are four deep fat-masses lying beneath the four lateral muscles. fat-vesicle n. ΚΠ 1845 R. B. Todd & W. Bowman Physiol. Anat. I. iii. 82 The fat vesicle of the human subject. (b) fat-like adj. ΚΠ 1712 P. Blair in Philos. Trans. 1710–12 (Royal Soc.) 27 95 A fat-like Substance. b. Objective. fat-engendering adj. ΚΠ 1883 Knowl. 20 July 34/2 Fat-engendering repose. fat-formation n. ΚΠ 1909 Daily Chron. 8 July 6/4 Fat-formation in the body..is not to be regarded as a mere accretion or addition of the fat we consume to the tissues of the frame. fat-former adj. ΚΠ 1886 C. Scott Pract. Sheep-farming 41 A ton of good linseed cake contains of fat-formers 1508 lbs.; of flesh-formers, 582 lbs. 1893 F. F. Moore I forbid Banns xxxiv She knew the flesh-formers from the fat-formers, and partook of both. fat-forming adj. ΚΠ 1848 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1847 116 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (30th Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 54) VI With respect to the fat-forming principle..the proportions of the different parts of the grain stand thus. fat-reducing adj. ΚΠ 1883 Knowl. 27 July 49/2 Dangerous fat-reducing systems. fat-splitting adj. ΚΠ 1890 J. S. Billings National Med. Dict. I Fat-splitting ferment, steapsin. 1907 Practitioner Aug. 320 The steapsin, or fat-splitting ferment of the pancreatic juice. 1955 J. G. Davis Dict. Dairying (ed. 2) 181 Tributyrin is extremely bitter, and certain fat-splitting bacteria may cause bitterness by producing this substance. C2. Special combinations. fat-body n. (in arthropods, esp. insects, and amphibians) a mass consisting of connective tissue and globules of fat, forming a reserve store of nutritious matter. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > amphibians > [noun] > member of (amphibian) > parts of tarsus1676 lateral line1740 sideline1769 fat-body1868 pylangium1874 urostyle1875 supracoracoid1897 hedonic gland1901 supracleithrum1903 prepubis1931 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > [noun] > member of > parts of > fat forming reserve store fat-body1868 1868 A. S. Packard Guide to Study of Insects 37 In the larva of insects is found the corpus adiposum, or fat-body, in the form of large lobes of fat-cells. 1901 Cambr. Nat. Hist. VIII. 52 There is in some Anura..a mysterious organ, intercalated between the fat-body and the testis or ovary. 1927 J. B. S. Haldane & J. S. Huxley Animal Biol. iv. 113 In the frog fat is stored in special fat-bodies. 1964 V. B. Wigglesworth Life of Insects ix. 136 It may be the ‘fat body’ or the blood that is coloured. fat boy n. (see quots.). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific tools or equipment > [noun] > with wheels ventilatora1800 wheel-boy1825 whirler1825 wheelman1865 fat boy1940 1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 324/1 Fat boys or fatters, boys or men employed to lubricate axles of tubs or wagons and rollers of haulage gear. 1955 Evening News 28 Sept. 3/8 Fat Boy, a boy who greases wagon-axles and does odd jobs in a quarry. fat-cake n. (see quots. 1865, 1898). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > cake > [noun] > a cake > other cakes honey appleeOE barley-cake1393 seed cakea1400 cake?a1425 pudding-cake?1553 manchet1562 biscuit cake1593 placent1598 poplin1600 jumbal1615 bread pudding1623 semel1643 wine-cakea1661 Shrewsbury cake1670 curd cake1675 fruitcake1687 clap-bread1691 simnel cake1699 orange-flower cake1718 banana cake1726 sweet-cake1726 torte1748 Naples cake1766 Bath cake1769 gofer1769 yeast-cake1795 nutcake1801 tipsy-cake1806 cruller1808 baba1813 lady's finger1818 coconut cake1824 mint cake1825 sices1825 cup-cake1828 batter-cake1830 buckwheat1830 Dundee seed cake1833 fat-cake1839 babka1846 wonder1848 popover1850 cream-cake1855 sly-cake1855 dripping-cake1857 lard-cake1858 puffet1860 quick cake1865 barnbrack1867 matrimony cake1871 brioche1873 Nelson cake1877 cocoa cake1883 sesame cake1883 marinade1888 mystery1889 oblietjie1890 stuffed monkey1892 Greek bread1893 Battenberg1903 Oswego cake1907 nusstorte1911 dump cake1912 Dobos Torte1915 lekach1918 buckle1935 Florentine1936 hash cake1967 space cake1984 1839 ‘T. Treddlehoyle’ Sum Thowts abaght Nan Bunt's Chresmas Tea-party 19 A great pile of muffins an fat-cake browt up at table. 1865 W. Howitt Hist. Discov. Austral. II. 15 Fat-cakes, made of flour, and fried in their pan, a bush dainty. 1898 E. E. Morris Austral Eng. Fat-cake, a ridiculous name sometimes applied to Eucalyptus leucoxylon. 1953 P. H. Abrahams Return to Goli vi. 200 After this we had fat-cakes and coffee. fat-fish n. the blue-fish. ΚΠ 1905 East London Disp. 7 Aug. When opened the stomach usually contains large lobes of fat—hence the name fat-fish. fat-free adj. free from fat. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fat or oil > [adjective] > without fat fatless1825 fat-free1869 the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > [adjective] > relating to meat > lean leanc1430 leany?a1475 fatless1825 fat-free1869 scraggy1871 1869 E. A. Parkes Man. Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 160 The dog and the rat can live on fat-free meat alone. fat-gude n. Shetland dialect (see quot.). ΚΠ 1860 D. Balfour Odal Rights & Feudal Wrongs 114 Fatgude, a term used in Zetland for the Butter or Oil paid to the Donatary. fat-liquor n. a mixture of soap and oil used in leather manufacture for softening hides; also as v. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with skins > work with skins [verb (transitive)] > treat with grease or oil liquor1502 dub?1611 shamoy1842 stuff1844 wax1885 dubbin1897 fat1903 fat-liquor1903 society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > leather > leather-making materials > [noun] > grease for softening or waterproofing dubbing1781 degras1882 fat-liquor1903 daubing- 1903 L. A. Flemming Pract. Tanning 127 The leather treated with it [sc. palmetto] takes even cooling and carries the fat-liquor well. 1945 G. D. McLaughlin & E. R. Theis Chem. Leather Manuf. xxiv. 739 It [sc. egg yolk] clarifies the fatliquor and..gives a drier, or a less oily and greasy feel, to the surface of the leather. fat-liquored adj. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > skin or hide > [adjective] > dressed or softened brain-dressed1851 waxed1852 fat-liquored1903 1903 L. A. Flemming Pract. Tanning 22 The leather is then ready to be stained or colored, fat-liquored, put out on the grain and treated in the finishing operations. 1945 G. D. McLaughlin & E. R. Theis Chem. Leather Manuf. xxiv. 742 A sample of fatliquored, chrome-tanned calf skin. fat-liquoring n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with skins > [noun] > treating with grease or oil shamoying1837 stuffing1852 fat-liquoring1931 1931 J. A. Wilson & H. B. Merrill Anal. Leather xi. 395 In both fat liquoring and finishing, most of the fatty constituents of the soap are absorbed by the leather. 1945 G. D. McLaughlin & E. R. Theis Chem. Leather Manuf. xxiv. 723 Soap emulsions are used in some special cases for fatliquoring leather. † Fat Monday n. [= French lundi gras] Obsolete the Monday before Shrove Tuesday. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Sunday before Lent > [noun] > period following > first week of > Sunday, Monday, Tuesday of > Monday in Shrove Mondayc1450 merry Monday1565 Fat Monday1585 Shrift Monday1587 Collop Monday1614 1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iv. xxxvi. 159 b They doe obserue two Lents..wherof the first beginneth on the fat munday, being ix. dayes before the lent of the Latins. fat-soluble adj. soluble in fats or oils. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > making or becoming liquid > action or process of dissolving > [adjective] > soluble > in fats or oils fat-soluble1922 oil-soluble1925 1922 Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 932/1 These [vitamins] are (1) the anti-scorbutic factor; (2) the water-soluble B.; (3) the fat-soluble A. 1926 J. S. Huxley Ess. Pop. Sci. viii. 88 Fat-soluble vitamin A. 1956 Nature 21 Jan. 123/2 The chlorinated compounds which are fat-soluble and chemically stable tend to accumulate in the fatty tissue. fat-tree n. one of a class of trees of temperate zones, including chiefly the soft-wooded trees such as the birch, lime, and conifers, which, at the beginning of winter, convert the starch of the bark and wood into fat, and reconvert it into starch in the spring. ΚΠ 1903 tr. A. F. W. Schimper Plant-geogr. 437 In the group of fat-trees, which are chiefly soft-wooded species, such as conifers, birches, and lime-trees, all the starch in the cortex and wood is converted into fat. fat-trap n. a device for catching fat in drains, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > sanitation > provision of sewers > [noun] > sewer > device for catching fat or grease fat-trap1884 grease-trap1884 1884 Internat. Health Exhib. Official Catal. 55/1 Gullies and Fat-Traps. Special uses S1. Parasynthetic (chiefly in sense A. 2). Also fat-faced adj., fat-witted adj. fat-arsed adj. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > back > buttock(s) > [adjective] > types of pin-buttocked1566 strong-dockeda1652 swag-buttockeda1652 callipygian1818 pin-tailed1825 fat-arsed1891 callipygous1923 rumpsprung1939 steatopygial1978 1891 J. S. Farmer Slang II. 377/1 Fat-arsed, broad in the breech. 1923 D. H. Lawrence Kangaroo xvi. 351 Slaving to keep this marvellous Empire going, with its..fat-arsed hypocritical upper classes. fat-backed adj. ΚΠ 1607 A. Brewer Lingua iii. ii, in W. C. Hazlitt Dodsley's Sel. Coll. Old Eng. Plays (1874) IX. 386 Your..fat-backed..drones. fat-barked adj. ΚΠ 1616–61 B. Holyday tr. Persius Sat. 297 ‘Armes, and the man I sing.’ Perchance you'l dare To call this frothy, fat-bark'd [L. cortice pingui]? fat-beneficed adj. (Sense A. 9.) ΚΠ 1634 M. Wilson Mercy & Truth i. vi. 216 Such fat-beneficed Bishops. fat-brained adj. (Sense A. 2a or A. 11.) ΚΠ 1596 M. Drayton Mortimeriados sig. I4 Fat-braind Fleamings. fat-eyebrowed adj. ΚΠ 1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Encapotado de ojos Fat eie browed. fat-fleshed adj. ΚΠ 1863 M. A. Power Arab. Days & Nights 109 Those ‘fat-fleshed’ fair ones. fat-hearted adj. (Sense A. 2a, or A. 11.) ΚΠ 1607 S. Hieron Good Fight in Wks. (1620) I. 230 The fat-hearted Israelites. fat-hipped adj. ΚΠ 1921 D. H. Lawrence Let. ?26 Mar. (1962) II. 647 The fat-hipped soft fellow we saw at Anticoli last year. fat-kidneyed adj. ΚΠ 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. ii. 6 Peace ye fat-kidneyd rascal. View more context for this quotation fat-legged adj. ΚΠ 1720 in T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth VI. 351 Glud [sic] Kate and fat legged Lissey. 1891 R. Kipling City Dreadful Night 72 Quaint houses, with fat-legged balustrades on the roofs. fat-paunched adj. (Sense A. 2b.) ΚΠ 1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 1691/2 The fat panched bishop. fat-rumped adj. ΚΠ 1842 J. Bischoff Comprehensive Hist. Woollen Manuf. II. 289 The head is like that of the fat-rumped [sheep]. fat-tailed adj. ΚΠ 1842 J. Bischoff Comprehensive Hist. Woollen Manuf. II. 320 The Doomba, or fat-tailed sheep of Cabool. S2. Also, fat-head n.² fat-back n. U.S. local a strip of fat from the back of a pig. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fat or oil > [noun] > strip of pig's fat or crackling scratchingc1440 scraps1823 crackling1834 fat-back1903 1903 Sears, Roebuck Catal. No. 113. 18/1 Clear back pork. This pork is made from the fat backs of prime hogs, is free from lean and bone. 1932 E. Caldwell Tobacco Road i. 8 Salty soup Ada had made by boiling several fat-back rinds in a pan of water. 1941 A. F. Raper Sharecroppers All 24 The great majority bring for lunch cold baked ‘taters’ and sandwiches of soda biscuits and fat back. fat-bird n. a name (a) of the Guacharo Steatornis caripensis; (b) of the Pectoral Sandpiper Actodromas maculata (U.S.). fat cat n. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.) a political backer; also transferred. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > wealth > [noun] > rich or wealthy person rich manOE richOE Divesc1386 richlingc1445 stuffed manc1460 cob1548 wealthling1581 tercel-gentle1597 good liver1602 goldfinch1603 fill-sack1641 dorado1643 wealth-monger1654 a man, etc. of fortune1732 nabob1760 nawab1826 rico1844 abounder1876 high roller1876 fat cat1928 richie1954 wealth-holder1957 jet-setter1959 society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > [noun] > party machine > rich political backer fat cat1928 1928 F. R. Kent Polit. Behavior vi. 59 These capitalists have what the organization needs—money to finance the campaign. Such men are known in political circles as ‘Fat Cats’. 1949 Sat. Rev. Lit. (U.S.) 16 Apr. 4 Hollywood celebrities, literary fat cats. 1960 Economist 8 Oct. 157/2 Methods of exhorting [sic] money which..harry so-called ‘fat-cats’—rich supporters—to an extent which looks like cruelty to animals. 1966 New Statesman 21 Jan. 78/3 The kind of balance-sheet fat cats who characterise the worst side of ITV. 1971 Flying Apr. 34/1 Those who view the business jet as a smoke-belching, profit-eating chariot of the fatcat. fat colour n. stale mixed paint which has become greasy owing to exposure. ΚΠ 1904 G. F. Goodchild & C. F. Tweney Technol. & Sci. Dict. (at cited word) Fat colour is sometimes used for painting rough work, being thinned down with turpentine or benzene before use. fat crab n. U.S. a crab ready to shed its shell. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > division Thoracostraca > order Decapoda > suborder Brachyura (crab) > crabs at particular stage soft crab1737 softshell crab1806 megalopa1815 buster1855 megalops1855 shedder-crab1860 peeler1866 shedder1872 prawn-stage1896 fat crab1905 1905 W. P. Hay in Rep. Bureau Fisheries 1904 (U.S.) 411 The individual bearing it [sc. a narrow white line] is classed as a ‘fat crab’, or more vulgarly as a ‘snot’. fat edge n. a superfluous rim of paint left on the edge of a surface. ΚΠ 1904 G. F. Goodchild & C. F. Tweney Technol. & Sci. Dict. (at cited word) A professional painter guards against fat edges. fat-face n. (a) a term of abuse; (b) Typography less commonly fat letter (see quot. 1841), and attributive. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior person > [noun] > as abused warlockOE swinec1175 beastc1225 wolf's-fista1300 avetrolc1300 congeonc1300 dirtc1300 slimec1315 snipec1325 lurdanc1330 misbegetc1330 sorrowa1350 shrew1362 jordan1377 wirlingc1390 frog?a1400 warianglea1400 wretcha1400 horcop14.. turdc1400 callet1415 lotterela1450 paddock?a1475 souter1478 chuff?a1500 langbain?c1500 cockatrice1508 sow1508 spink1508 wilrone1508 rook?a1513 streaker?a1513 dirt-dauber?1518 marmoset1523 babiona1529 poll-hatcheta1529 bear-wolf1542 misbegotten1546 pig1546 excrement1561 mamzer1562 chuff-cat1563 varlet1566 toada1568 mandrake1568 spider1568 rat1571 bull-beef1573 mole-catcher1573 suppository1573 curtal1578 spider-catcher1579 mongrela1585 roita1585 stickdirta1585 dogfish1589 Poor John1589 dog's facec1590 tar-boxa1592 baboon1592 pot-hunter1592 venom1592 porcupine1594 lick-fingers1595 mouldychaps1595 tripe1595 conundrum1596 fat-guts1598 thornback1599 land-rat1600 midriff1600 stinkardc1600 Tartar1600 tumbril1601 lobster1602 pilcher1602 windfucker?1602 stinker1607 hog rubber1611 shad1612 splay-foot1612 tim1612 whit1612 verdugo1616 renegado1622 fish-facea1625 flea-trapa1625 hound's head1633 mulligrub1633 nightmare1633 toad's-guts1634 bitch-baby1638 shagamuffin1642 shit-breech1648 shitabed1653 snite1653 pissabed1672 bastard1675 swab1687 tar-barrel1695 runt1699 fat-face1740 shit-sack1769 vagabond1842 shick-shack1847 soor1848 b1851 stink-pot1854 molie1871 pig-dog1871 schweinhund1871 wind-sucker1880 fucker1893 cocksucker1894 wart1896 so-and-so1897 swine-hound1899 motherfucker1918 S.O.B.1918 twat1922 mong1926 mucker1929 basket1936 cowson1936 zombie1936 meatball1937 shower1943 chickenshit1945 mugger1945 motherferyer1946 hooer1952 morpion1954 mother1955 mother-raper1959 louser1960 effer1961 salaud1962 gunk1964 scunge1967 1740 S. Richardson Pamela II. 234 Answer me, Fat-face! 1841 W. Savage Dict. Art of Printing Fat Face or Fat Letter is a letter with a broad stem. 1871 Amer. Encycl. Printing 169/2 Fat-face Letter, Letter with a broad face. fat-fed adj. fed up to fatness: of a man, full-fleshed; also transferred. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > broad shape or physique > [adjective] > fat or plump fatc893 frimOE fullOE overfatOE greatOE bald1297 roundc1300 encorsivea1340 fattishc1369 fleshyc1369 fleshlyc1374 repletea1398 largec1405 corsious1430 corpulentc1440 corsyc1440 fulsome1447 portlyc1487 corporate1509 foggy fata1529 corsive1530 foggish?1537 plump1545 fatty1552 fleshful1552 pubble1566 plum1570 pursy1576 well-fleshed1576 gross?1577 fog1582 forfatted1586 gulchy1598 bouksome1600 fat-fed1607 meatified1607 chuff1609 plumpya1616 bloat1638 blowze-like1647 obese1651 jollya1661 bloated1664 chubbed1674 pluffya1689 puffya1689 pussy1688 sappy1694 crummy1718 chubby1722 fodgel1724 well-padded1737 beefy1743 plumpish1753 pudsy1754 rotund1762 portable1770 lusty1777 roundabout1787 well-cushioned1802 plenitudinous1803 stout1804 embonpointc1806 roly-poly1808 adipose1810 roll-about1815 foggy1817 poddy1823 porky1828 hide-blown1834 tubby1835 stoutish1836 tubbish1836 superfatted1841 pottle-bodied1842 pincushiony1851 opulent1882 well-covered1884 well-upholstered1886 butterball1888 endomorphic1888 tisty-tosty1888 pachyntic1890 barrel-bodied1894 overweight1899 pussy-gutted1906 upholstered1924 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 181 This kind of Dog..is mighty, grosse, and fat fed. 1616 Trav. Eng. Pilg. in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) III. 329 Fat-fed friars. 1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. M5 The fat-fed smoking Temple. fat-guts n. one having a big belly, used as a term of abuse, also attributive. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior person > [noun] > as abused warlockOE swinec1175 beastc1225 wolf's-fista1300 avetrolc1300 congeonc1300 dirtc1300 slimec1315 snipec1325 lurdanc1330 misbegetc1330 sorrowa1350 shrew1362 jordan1377 wirlingc1390 frog?a1400 warianglea1400 wretcha1400 horcop14.. turdc1400 callet1415 lotterela1450 paddock?a1475 souter1478 chuff?a1500 langbain?c1500 cockatrice1508 sow1508 spink1508 wilrone1508 rook?a1513 streaker?a1513 dirt-dauber?1518 marmoset1523 babiona1529 poll-hatcheta1529 bear-wolf1542 misbegotten1546 pig1546 excrement1561 mamzer1562 chuff-cat1563 varlet1566 toada1568 mandrake1568 spider1568 rat1571 bull-beef1573 mole-catcher1573 suppository1573 curtal1578 spider-catcher1579 mongrela1585 roita1585 stickdirta1585 dogfish1589 Poor John1589 dog's facec1590 tar-boxa1592 baboon1592 pot-hunter1592 venom1592 porcupine1594 lick-fingers1595 mouldychaps1595 tripe1595 conundrum1596 fat-guts1598 thornback1599 land-rat1600 midriff1600 stinkardc1600 Tartar1600 tumbril1601 lobster1602 pilcher1602 windfucker?1602 stinker1607 hog rubber1611 shad1612 splay-foot1612 tim1612 whit1612 verdugo1616 renegado1622 fish-facea1625 flea-trapa1625 hound's head1633 mulligrub1633 nightmare1633 toad's-guts1634 bitch-baby1638 shagamuffin1642 shit-breech1648 shitabed1653 snite1653 pissabed1672 bastard1675 swab1687 tar-barrel1695 runt1699 fat-face1740 shit-sack1769 vagabond1842 shick-shack1847 soor1848 b1851 stink-pot1854 molie1871 pig-dog1871 schweinhund1871 wind-sucker1880 fucker1893 cocksucker1894 wart1896 so-and-so1897 swine-hound1899 motherfucker1918 S.O.B.1918 twat1922 mong1926 mucker1929 basket1936 cowson1936 zombie1936 meatball1937 shower1943 chickenshit1945 mugger1945 motherferyer1946 hooer1952 morpion1954 mother1955 mother-raper1959 louser1960 effer1961 salaud1962 gunk1964 scunge1967 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. ii. 31 Peace ye fat guts, lie downe. View more context for this quotation 1682 N. O. tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux Lutrin iv. 278 Till fat-guts Everard open'd, and quite marr'd it. 1853 W. J. Hickie tr. Aristophanes Comedies II. 536 Pray, sit down here, you fat guts. fat lamb n. New Zealand a lamb bred to be exported as refrigerated meat. ΚΠ 1891 R. Wallace Rural Econ. Austral. & N.Z. xxvii. 369 Any of the various breeds or crosses now in the country [sc. N.Z.] will supply suitable mothers for fat lambs, provided they are good milkers. 1923 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. 20 Jan. 50 Which breed of sheep is best for fat-lamb production? 1928 R. G. Stapledon Tour Austral. & N.Z. viii. 58 Fat lambs are also largely produced on a Romney basis. 1956 G. Bowen Wool Away! (ed. 2) xii. 147 On the flat country..fat-lamb and mutton production predominate. fat-lute n. (see quot.). ΚΠ 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Fat-lute, a mixture of pipeclay and linseed oil for filling joints. fat-rascal n. (see quots.). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > cake > [noun] > a cake > rich cake spice-cake1530 sugar-cake1600 plum cake1606 butter cake1616 pound cake1743 black cake1823 Dundee cake1836 gâteau1845 fat-rascal1868 Dundee1920 Lane cake1921 1868 J. C. Atkinson Gloss. Cleveland Dial. Fat-rascal, a kind of rich tea-cake compounded with butter or cream..and with currants intermingled. † fat-sagg adj. Obsolete hanging down with fat. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily substance > fat > [adjective] > hanging down with fat fat-sagg1604 1604 T. M. Blacke Bk. in Wks. (1886) VIII. 12 With her fat-sagg chin hanging down like a cow's udder. fatstock n. fat-stock n. marketable live-stock. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > domestic animal > [noun] > livestock feec900 auchtOE orfOE avers1292 storea1300 bestialc1350 cattlea1400 ware1422 quickc1450 goods1472 stock?1523 chattel1627 live goods1635 team1655 creature1662 livestocka1687 living stock1690 farming stock1749 farm animal1805 fat-stock1881 1881 Trans. Dept. Agric. State Illinois 1880 18 65 The success of the Fat Stock Show. 1906 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 30 Jan. 5/4 It was decided to hold a fat stock sale in this city in the middle of March. 1907 R. Wallace Farming Industries Cape Colony (ed. 4) 281 Steers slaughtered at the Smithfield Fat-Stock Show. 1912 Jrnl. Bath & West & Southern Counties Soc. 5th Ser. 6 v. 175 For many years the Middle Whites carried off the highest awards at the fat stock shows. 1955 Times 13 July 12/5 The fatstock marketing scheme had been working successfully for the past 12 months. fat-tail n. a fat-tailed sheep. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) > specific breeds or members of mug1596 down1721 Shropshire1768 Norfolk sheep1778 Ryeland1786 Southdown1786 Persian1794 Leicester1798 Southdowner1799 Ryeland1802 loaghtan1812 Manx loaghtan1812 herdwick1837 Wallachian1837 Norfolk1851 Teeswater1861 bluefaced Leicester1864 Rough Fell1871 Border Leicester1873 Mexican1878 Cheviot1883 fat-tail1888 pampas1892 pampas sheep1895 turbary1908 karakul1913 East Friesian1949 Texel1949 Norfolk Horn1961 Colbred1962 1888 Castle Line Handbk. S.A. 55 The fat-tails held their own for many years. † fat-ware n. Obsolete cattle fatted for market. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > bos taurus or ox > [noun] > fattened or bred for slaughter > collectively flesh16.. fat-ware1601 beef-cattle1758 feeders1790 Angus1810 beeves- 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. These forsooth they feed in mue, and franke them up like fat-ware, with good corn~meale. fat-wood n. U.S. local = lightwood n.² a. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > pine > types of bog fir1770 ocote1787 Georgia pine1796 Labrador pine1803 pumpkin pine1809 Banksian pine1831 bog-pine1842 tamarack pine1843 tamarack1864 Baltic pine1866 Norway pine1866 slash-pine1882 Queensland kauri1889 krummholz1908 fat-wood1909 1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Fatwood, any pine wood full of pitch. 1938 M. K. Rawlings Yearling vii. 67 She unbanked the fire on the hearth and threw on fat-wood. 1963 Times 19 Mar. 10/7 All kinds of wood, including fat-wood. Draft additions 1993 fat-mouth n. U.S. slang one who talks extravagantly, a loudmouth. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > [noun] > boaster yelper1340 avaunterc1374 braggerc1390 fare-makerc1440 seggerc1440 shakerc1440 vaunter1484 roosera1500 praterc1500 cracker1509 vouster?a1513 boaster1574 Thrasoa1576 braggarta1577 braver1589 glorioser1589 bragout1592 rodomont1592 braggadocio1594 gloriosoc1599 puckfist1600 burgullian1601 puff1601 forthputtera1610 rodomontado1609 ostentator1611 fanfaron1622 potgun1623 thrasonist1626 cracka1640 vapourer1653 braggadocian1654 rodomontadist1655 charlatan1670 brag1671 rodomontade1683 gasconader1709 rodomontader1730 Gascon1757 spread eagle1809 bag of wind1816 penny trumpeter1828 spraga1838 gasser1855 blow-hard1857 blower1863 crower1864 gabber1869 flannel-mouth1882 punk-fist1890 skiter1898 Tartarin1903 blow1904 skite1906 poofter1916 trombenik1922 shooter of lines1941 fat-mouth1942 wide-mouth1959 Wheneye1982 trash talker1986 braggarist- 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §537/3 Criminal lawyer,..fat-mouth. 1961 J. Heller Catch-22 (1962) xii. 126 Okay, fatmouth, out of the car. Draft additions 1993 fat-mouth v. U.S. slang (chiefly Black English) (a) intransitive, to talk a great deal about something, with little or no action or result; (b) transitive, to talk excessively to, esp. in order to cajole or sweet-talk. ΚΠ 1970 Atlantic May 61 They have to do something, have to move,..they can no longer sit back and fat-mouth about it. 1971 B. Malamud Tenants 71 I ain't asking you to fatmouth me, just as I am not interested in getting into any argument with you. Draft additions December 2002 fat camp n. originally U.S. a residential (summer) course with an emphasis on weight reduction, usually for children. ΚΠ 1975 N.Y. Times 4 Aug. 34 It's not a fat camp... It's a ‘weight control community’ where women between the ages of 16 and 45 can spend their summer vacations and, they hope, take it off, take it all off. 1998 Guardian 22 Dec. i. 8/6 Up to 150 teenagers and pre-teens with a serious weight problem will spend six weeks on the pioneer course, adapted from US ‘fat camps’. Draft additions December 2002 fat client n. Computing (in a client-server network) a client terminal with significant processing capacity, on which system applications may be stored and run, spec. one with a hard disk; cf. thin client n. at thin adj., n., and adv. Additions. ΚΠ 1991 PC Week (Nexis) 18 Nov. 47 Spiraling prices for RAM, hard drives and other workstation components have made the ‘fat client’ approach cost-effective. 1996 Computing 19 Sept. 29/1 Instead, British Gas decided on a fat client solution based on Pentium PCs. 2001 Toronto Star (Electronic ed.) 29 Jan. Back in the mid-1990s, both men referred to the PC as a fat client that hogged resources and regularly crashed. Draft additions September 2017 fat quarter n. (in needlework, especially patchwork) a piece of fabric that is half a yard (or half a metre) long and half the width of a bolt, typically measuring 18 inches by 22 inches; abbreviated FQ. ΚΠ 1983 Richardson (Texas) Daily News 3 June 5/1 (advt.) Largest Inventory of Cotton Fabrics in the Southwest!.. ‘Fat Quarters’ 50^¢ 18″x22½″. 1998 Patchwork & Quilting Aug. 21/2 (advt.) Pack of 4 fat quarters in antique beige, lilac, green, blue and pink. 2012 Herald-Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 17 Mar. d4/1 These napkins are fun for any sewer who loves to mix and match fat quarters. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2022). fatv. Brit. /fat/, U.S. /fæt/ Forms: Old English fǽttian, Middle English southern vetten, Middle English fatten, Middle English–1500s fatte, (Middle English faat, 1500s fate), Middle English, 1500s– fat. Etymology: Old English fǽttian , < fǽtt fat adj. †1. a. transitive. As lit. rendering of Hebrew dishshēn, Vulgate impinguare: To anoint, ‘make fat’ (the head); to load (an altar) with fat. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrament > (extreme) unction > anoint [verb (transitive)] smearc825 ChristeOE fatc1000 elec1275 chrisoma1300 enoil1340 alinec1350 anelec1350 anoint1357 ointa1382 anointa1398 creme1398 forsmerla1400 nointa1400 smerla1400 in oil(s)a1536 chrism1537 benoint1594 chrismatize1664 society > faith > worship > sacrifice or a sacrifice > sacrifice [verb (transitive)] > load altar with fat fatc1000 c1000 Ags. Ps. xxii[i]. 5 Ðu faettades in ele heafud min. a1300 E.E. Psalter xxii[i]. 5 Þou fatted in oli mi heved ywhit. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Ecclus. xxxv. 8 The offring of the riȝtwis fatteth the auter. 1698 J. Norris Pract. Disc. Divine Subj. IV. 114 The Sacrifices with which they fatted their Altars. †b. To bedaub with fat or grease; hence, transferred to cover thickly. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > coating or covering with a layer > coat or cover with a layer [verb (transitive)] > smear or spread with a substance smear971 dechea1000 cleamc1000 besmearc1050 clamc1380 glue1382 pargeta1398 overslame?1440 plaster?1440 beslab1481 strike1525 bestrike1527 streak1540 bedaub1558 spread1574 daub1598 paste1609 beplaster1611 circumlite1657 oblite1657 fata1661 gaum?1825 treacle1839 butter1882 slap1902 slather1941 nap1961 a1661 B. Holyday tr. Juvenal Satyres (1673) iii. 42 Durt fats my thighs. 2. intransitive. To grow or become fat. Also to fat up. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > broad shape or physique > [verb (intransitive)] > fat or plump forwaxc897 fatc1000 burnish1398 battle1575 pinguefy1598 bellya1642 fatten1676 (to be) in flesh1677 thrive1711 feed1727 bloat1735 plumpen1795 to fill out1851 stouten1863 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 103 Naut ase swin ipunt isti. forto uattin & to greatin aȝeinþe cul of þe axe. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) v. xli. 158 Yf the mylte mynysshyth and fadyth, the body fattyth. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iv. f. 161 The harder they [sc. fowl] lye, the sooner they fatte. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 600 If they fat of their owne accord, it hath bin found that the taile of one of these sheepe haue weighed ten or twenty pound. 1794 G. Washington Let. in Writings (1892) XIII. 24 The hogs which have been fatting. 1808 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon xiv. 355 Proper time being allowed, [they] will commonly fat to six score per quarter. 1826 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 14 Oct. 159 They were fatting on the grass. figurative.c1000 Ags. Ps. lxiv. 13 [lxv. 12] Faettiað endas woestennes.a1300 E.E. Psalter lxiv. 13 [lxv. 12] Fat sal faire of wildernes.c1300 Song Husbandm. 32 in Pol. Songs (Camden) 151 Falsshipe fatteth.1596 J. Norden Progr. Pietie f. 66^v Sin, wherein they lie fatting in all delightes.1631 S. Jerome Arraignem. Whole Creature xv. §1. 251 Vanities, on which our Prodigall eates, but neyther feeds, fils, nor fats. 3. a. transitive. To make fat, fatten; usually, to feed (animals) for use as food. Also to fat up. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feeding animals > [verb (intransitive)] > fatten animals fatc1386 fatten1552 the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feeding animals > [verb (transitive)] > fatten masteOE fatc1386 frankc1440 to set up1540 fatten1552 feed1552 cram1577 engrease1583 to raise in flesh1608 adipate1623 saginate1623 batten1638 to stall to1764 tallow1765 to fat off1789 to make up1794 higglea1825 finish1841 force1847 to feed off1852 steam1947 the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > [verb (intransitive)] > fatten animals fatc1386 fatten1552 the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > [verb (transitive)] > fatten masteOE fatc1386 to set up1540 fatten1552 feed1552 forcea1571 cram1577 engrease1583 to raise in flesh1608 saginate1623 to stall to1764 tallow1765 stall-feed1766 graze1787 to fat off1789 to make up1794 higglea1825 finish1841 to feed off1852 steam1947 c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 56 & my fėdde foulez [arn] fatted with sclaȝt. c1420 Pallad. on Husb. i. 562 To faat hem is avayling and plesaunte. c1530 A. Barclay Egloges i. sig. Fij ^v Whan they [sc. our hogges] be fattyd by costys and labour. 1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. iv. f. 137^v A heard of swine: which they [Anabaptistes] fondly faine to haue ben fatted vp by the Lord. ?1608 S. Lennard tr. P. Charron Of Wisdome iii. xiii. 457 The..presence of the master, saith the prouerbe, fatteth the horse and the land. 1612 T. Dekker If it be not Good sig. C^v Churles..fat their rancke gutts whilest poore wretches pine. 1769 T. Gray Jrnl. 13 Oct. in Corr. (1971) III. 1108 Numbers of black cattle are fatted here. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth V. 172 The first who fatted up the peacock for the feasts of the luxurious. 1877 S. Baring-Gould Myst. Suffering 48 His ideal of beauty..was woman fatted on milk till she could not walk. absolute.c1440 Secrees, Prose version (E.E.T.S.) Þese fattys and moystes: Rest of body, gladnesse of wyl [etc.].1584 J. Lyly Alexander, Campaspe, & Diogenes i. ii. sig. A3^v [Apelles] proueth that muche easier it is to fatte by colours, and telles of birdes that haue beene fatted by painted grapes in winter.figurative.c1386 G. Chaucer Summoner's Tale* 172 Who so wol preye, he moot..fatte his soule and make his body lene.1553 Short Catech. in Liturgies, etc. Edw. VI (Parker Soc.) 525 If they be watered, and fatted with the dew of Gods word.1633 G. Herbert Odour in Temple ii This broth of smells, that feeds and fats my minde. b. reflexive. literal and figurative. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > wealth > make oneself rich [verb (reflexive)] enrich1525 fat1567 the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eat [verb (reflexive)] repasta1470 bait1633 fat1679 1567 T. Drant tr. Horace Pistles in tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie sig. Cvj^v A long deuoued cowe. Which graseth here..And fattes her selfe for you. 1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 43 Fatting themselues with great and gainefull offices. 1679 W. Penn Addr. Protestants (1692) ii. v. 179 She..hath fatted herself with the Flesh of Saints. c. Said of the food. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > qualities of food > [verb (intransitive)] > be fattening fatc1400 the world > food and drink > food > qualities of food > [verb (transitive)] > cause fattening fatc1400 c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 61 Dieting þat fattiþ & makiþ him glad. 1528 T. Paynell tr. Arnaldus de Villa Nova in Joannes de Mediolano Regimen Sanitatis Salerni sig. Q iij b The substance or meate of cheries..fattethe the bodye. 1633 J. Fisher Fuimus Troes sig. Aiii Making your huge..trunkes To fat our Crowes. 1708 Chamberlayne's Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (1743) i. i. iii. 24 Knot-grass..its long knots will fat swine. 1829 Bone Manure: Rep. Doncaster Comm. Agric. Assoc. 25 This improved and fatted the sheep. absolute.1528 T. Paynell tr. Arnaldus de Villa Nova in Joannes de Mediolano Regimen Sanitatis Salerni sig. G ij Grene chese nourysheth and fattethe. d. transitive. In the manufacture of leather, to smear over with fat-liquor. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with skins > work with skins [verb (transitive)] > treat with grease or oil liquor1502 dub?1611 shamoy1842 stuff1844 wax1885 dubbin1897 fat1903 fat-liquor1903 1903 L. A. Flemming Pract. Tanning 166 The leather is now treated as usual, and fatted or oiled. 4. to fat off: to fatten for sale or slaughter. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feeding animals > [verb (transitive)] > fatten masteOE fatc1386 frankc1440 to set up1540 fatten1552 feed1552 cram1577 engrease1583 to raise in flesh1608 adipate1623 saginate1623 batten1638 to stall to1764 tallow1765 to fat off1789 to make up1794 higglea1825 finish1841 force1847 to feed off1852 steam1947 the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > [verb (transitive)] > fatten masteOE fatc1386 to set up1540 fatten1552 feed1552 forcea1571 cram1577 engrease1583 to raise in flesh1608 saginate1623 to stall to1764 tallow1765 stall-feed1766 graze1787 to fat off1789 to make up1794 higglea1825 finish1841 to feed off1852 steam1947 1789 Trans. Soc. Arts (ed. 2) 2 90 Bull steers..fed with hay during the labouring part of their lives..then fatted off. 1850 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 11 ii. 679 Decided to fat off the wethers as early as possible. 5. To enrich (the soil) with nutritious and stimulating elements; to fertilize. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > fertilizing or manuring > fertilize or manure [verb (transitive)] gooda1525 marl1528 plentify1555 fat1562 fatten1563 season1563 heart1573 manure1577 soil1593 hearten1594 remanure1598 enrich1601 teasel1610 battle1611 batten1612 bedung1649 sweeten1733 top-dress1733 top1856 side-dress1888 1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 52^v Horned clauer..fatteth the grownde. 1594 T. Blundeville Exercises v. f. 265^v The flood Nilus, which by his inundations doth yearely..fatte the Countrie of Egypt. a1639 W. Whately Prototypes (1640) i. iv. 30 If the sheepes dung did not fat the ground. 1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. (1655) xviii. 135 Which with the ashes left after the burning fatteth the ground. 1807 J. Barlow Columbiad v. 197 Till Austria's titled hordes, with their own gore, Fat the fair fields they lorded long before. 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