fat¹ /fat/

1. Plump, fleshy
2. Well filled out
3. Thick, full-bodied (as of printing types)
4. Corpulent
5. Obese
6. Having much, or of the nature of, adipose tissue or the substance it contains
7. Oily
8. Fruitful or profitable
9. (of a theatrical role) yielding rich opportunities for displaying one's talent
10. Rich in some important constituent
11. Gross
12. Fulsome

1. A substance found in adipose tissue
2. Solid animal or vegetable oil
3. Any member of a group of naturally occurring substances consisting of the glycerides of higher fatty acids, eg palmitic acid, stearic acid, oleic acid (chem)
4. The richest part of anything
5. A piece of work offering more than usual profit for effort
6. A role or passage that enables an actor or musician to show his or her talent
7. Inclination to corpulence
8. A fat animal
9. Money (slang)

(in golf) striking the ground before the ball

To make fat

To grow fat

fatˈling noun

A young animal fattened for slaughter

Small and fat

fatˈly adverb

1. Grossly
2. Lumberingly

fatˈness noun

1. Quality or state of being fat
2. Fullness of flesh
3. Richness
4. Fertility
5. That which makes something fertile

fattˈed adjective see kill the fatted calf below

fattˈen transitive verb

1. To make fat or fleshy
2. To enrich
3. To make fertile

To grow fat

fattˈener noun

fattˈening noun (also adjective)

fattˈiness noun

fattˈish adjective

Somewhat fat

fattˈism noun

Discrimination against fat people

fattˈist noun and adjective

fattˈy adjective

1. Containing fat
2. Having (some of) the qualities of fat

A fat person

fatˈback noun (US)

Fatty meat from the upper part of a side of pork, usu dried and cured with salt

fat body noun

An area of fatty tissue in the body of an animal, esp an insect, in which energy is stored

fatˈbrained adjective (Shakespeare)

Stupid

fat camp noun (US)

A residential slimming camp for overweight children

fat cat noun (orig US sl)

A wealthy, prosperous person, esp one who is thought to have gained excessive rewards

fatˈ-cat adjective

fat city noun (also with caps; US sl)

Easy circumstances, prosperous conditions

fatˈ-face or fat-facedˈ adjective

Having a fat or broad face

fat-fingˈer adjective (informal)

Denoting a computer error caused by the clumsiness of the person inputting the data

fatˈ-free adjective

(of food) containing virtually no fat

fatˈhead noun (informal)

A stupid, dim-witted person

fat-headˈed adjective

fat hen noun

Any one of various thick-leaved plants, esp of the goosefoot family

fatˈ-lute noun

A mixture of pipe-clay and linseed oil, for filling joints in wood, esp in shipbuilding

fat mouse noun

Any of several kinds of mouse of the genus Steatomys, found in dry regions of Africa, that store fat and are eaten as a delicacy

fat stock or fatˈstock noun

Livestock fattened for market

fat suit noun

A padded costume worn by an actor to make him or her seem fatter than they really are

fatˈ-tailed adjective

Having much fat in the tail, as do certain Asiatic and African sheep

fatty acids plural noun

Acids which with glycerine form fats, some of which (essential fatty acids) cannot be synthesized by the body and must be supplied in the diet

fatty degeneration noun

Morbid deposition of fat

fatty heart, etc noun

Fatty degeneration of the heart, etc

fatty oils same as fixed oils (see under fix).

fatˈ-witted adjective

Dull-witted, stupid

(a) fat chance (slang)

Little or no opportunity or prospect

a fat lot (slang)

Not much

kill the fatted calf see under calf¹

live off the fat of the land

To live in luxury

• poor-spirited
• poor-spiritedness
• poor's-roll
• poort
• poortith
• poortiths
• poorts
• poor white
• poorwill
• poorwills
• poos
• poot
• pooted
• pooter
• Pooter
• Pooterish
• Pooterism
• pooters
• pooting
• pootle
• pootled
• pootles
• pootling
• poots
• poove