fat
Translingual
Symbol
fat
- (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Fante.
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: făt, IPA(key): /fæt/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -æt
- Homophone: phat
Etymology 1
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From Middle English fat, from Old English fǣtt (“fatted, fat”), from Proto-West Germanic *faitid (“fatted”), originally the past participle of the verb *faitijan (“to make fat”), from *fait (“fat”).
Adjective
fat (comparative fatter, superlative fattest)
- Carrying more fat than usual on one's body; plump; not lean or thin.
- The fat man had trouble getting through the door.
- The fattest pig should yield the most meat.
- 1932, New Orleans (La.) Board of Health, Vox Sanitatis
- While Hennessey is pouring the milk, the fat guy with the big pot-belly, will come over and write a lot of junk in his little book.
- 2014, Isabel Quintero, Gabi, a Girl in Pieces, Cinco Puntos Press, →ISBN, page 46:
- Because, really, who would like the fat girl? Sebastian said I was crazy for thinking that.
- Thick; large.
- The fat wallets of the men from the city brought joy to the peddlers.
- Bulbous; rotund.
- 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 731476803:
- So this was my future home, I thought! […] Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
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- Bountiful.
- Oily; greasy; unctuous; rich (said of food).
- (obsolete) Exhibiting the qualities of a fat animal; coarse; heavy; gross; dull; stupid.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Isaiah 6:10, column 1:
- Make the heart of this people fat, […]
- 1855 July 21, Ralph Waldo Emerson, letter to Walter Whitman
- making our western wits fat & mean
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- Fertile; productive.
- a fat soil; a fat pasture
- Rich; producing a large income; desirable.
- a fat benefice; a fat office; a fat job
- 1882, Thomas Carlyle, Reminiscences
- now parson of Troston, a fat living in Suffolk
- Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate.
- 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), 6th edition, London: […] J[ames] Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1727, OCLC 21766567:, "Why Christ's Doctrine was Rejected"
- persons grown fat and wealthy by a long and successful imposture
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- (dated, printing) Of a character which enables the compositor to make large wages; said of matter containing blank, cuts, or many leads, etc.
- a fat take; a fat page
- (golf) Being a shot in which the ground is struck before the ball.
- 1992, DeDe Owens, Linda K. Bunker, Advanced Golf: Steps to Success (page 81)
- Hitting a thin shot from a fairway bunker is more productive than hitting a fat shot.
- 1992, DeDe Owens, Linda K. Bunker, Advanced Golf: Steps to Success (page 81)
- (theater) Of a role: significant; major; meaty.
- 1965, Edmund Fuller, A Pageant of the Theatre (page 131)
- He is what the theatre calls a “fat” role — a man suddenly confronted by a terrible duty. He is called upon to revenge the murder of his father and to right a wrong against the state.
- 1997, Harold Clurman, On Directing (page 12)
- He seeks a fat role in a hit show, lest he diminish his market value.
- 2012, Greg Robinson, Larry S. Tajiri, Pacific Citizens (page 9)
- Joe Hirakawa, formerly of the Seattle Civic Repertory Theatre, was a waterfront peddler in “Madame Butterfly” and had a fat role in “Beauty Parlor,” an indie.
- 1965, Edmund Fuller, A Pageant of the Theatre (page 131)
- Alternative form of phat (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Synonyms
- (carrying a larger than normal amount of fat): chubby, chunky, corpulent, lardy (slang), obese, overweight, plump, porky (slang), rotund, tubby, well-fed; see also Thesaurus:obese
- (thick): thick
- (bountiful): bountiful, prosperous
Antonyms
- Of sense (carrying a larger than normal amount of fat): lean, skinny, slender, slim, thin
Derived terms
- a fat lot
- big fat, big-fat
- fat acceptance
- fat and happy
- fat arrow
- fat as a fool
- fat as a house
- fat as a pig
- fat-ass
- fat-assed
- fat ball
- fat bike, fatbike
- fat body
- fat-buttocked
- fat cat
- fat catshark
- fat cell
- fat city
- fat client
- fat comma
- fat day
- fat dormouse
- fat fantasy
- fat farm
- fat fetishism
- fat finger
- fat-finger
- fat-fingered
- fat fuck
- fat henfat knot
- fat-kidneyed
- fat lava
- fat link
- fat lip
- fat lot of good
- fat lute
- fatness
- fat pants
- fat quarter
- fat rascal
- fat-shame
- fat-shaming
- fat shaming
- fat sleeper
- fat suit
- fat tail
- fat-tail
- fat-tailed
- fat-tailed dwarf lemur
- fat-tailed sheepit ain't over till the fat lady sings
- fat tax
- fatty
- it ain't over 'til the fat lady sings
- it ain't over until the fat lady sings
- it isn't over till the fat lady sings
- it isn't over 'til the fat lady sings
- it isn't over until the fat lady sings
- laugh and grow fat
- mash-fat
- one fat lady
- run to fat
- skinny fat
- small fat
- stick fat
- the fat is in the fire
- two fat ladies
Descendants
- Sranan Tongo: fatu
Translations
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Noun
fat (usually uncountable, plural fats)
- (uncountable) A specialized animal tissue with high lipid content, used for long-term storage of energy: fat tissue.
- Mammals that hibernate have plenty of fat to keep them warm during the winter.
- Hyponym: blubber
- Such tissue as food: the fatty portion of (or trimmings from) meat cuts.
- Ask the butcher for a few pounds of fat for our greens.
- (countable) A lipid that is solid at room temperature, which fat tissue contains and which is also found in the blood circulation; sometimes, a refined substance chemically resembling such naturally occurring lipids.
- Dietary fat is not the evil that it was once misapprehended to be; carbs are increasingly recognized as a bigger driver of atherosclerosis via chronic insulin resistance and the vascular processes that cascade from it.
- 2018, Kristin Lawless, Formerly known as food, →ISBN, page 32:
- In fact, the fats that are most stable and least likely to oxidize with heat are the highly saturated fats we've long been told to avoid—lard, tallow, butter, and coconut and palm oils.
- That part of an organization deemed wasteful.
- We need to trim the fat in this company
- (slang) An erection.
- I saw Daniel crack a fat.
- (golf) A poorly played shot where the ball is struck by the top part of the club head. (see also thin, shank, toe)
- The best or richest productions; the best part.
- to live on the fat of the land
- (dated, printing) Work containing much blank, or its equivalent, and therefore profitable to the compositor.
- (informal, derogatory) A fat person.
- 1996, Roger Stone, "Local Swing Fever", highlighted by National Enquirer in September 1996 and Daily Mail in January 2019
- Prefer military, bodybuilders, jocks. No smokers or fats please.
- 1996, Roger Stone, "Local Swing Fever", highlighted by National Enquirer in September 1996 and Daily Mail in January 2019
- A beef cattle fattened for sale.
- 1934, Henry G. Lamond, An Aviary On The Plains, page 7:
- Before riding over to the fats we'll have a look about us.
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Synonyms
- (animal tissue): adipose tissue, lard (in animals; derogatory slang when used of human fat), suet (perivisceral type)
- (substance chemically resembling the oils in animal fat): grease, lard
- (fat person): fatty, fatso see also Thesaurus:fat person
Derived terms
- animal fat
- baby fat
- beige fat
- body fat
- brown fat
- butterfat
- butterfat
- caul fat
- chew the fat
- crack a fat
- deep-fat-fry
- deep-fat fryer
- fatberg
- fat camp
- fat chance
- fat content
- fat-free
- fat is flavor
- fat is flavour
- fatless
- fat of the land
- fat pad
- fat sandwich
- fat-soluble
- fatten
- full-fat
- leaf fat
- low-fat
- milkfat
- otoba fat
- palm fat
- polyunsaturated fat
- pull someone's fat out of the fire
- pull the fat out of the fire
- puppy fat
- reduced-fat milk
- saturated fat
- trans fat
- unsaturated fat
- vegetable fat
- white fat
- wool fat
- yellow fat disease
Descendants
- Sranan Tongo: fatu
Translations
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See also
fat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Verb
fat (third-person singular simple present fats, present participle fatting, simple past and past participle fatted)
- (transitive, archaic) To make fat; to fatten.
- kill the fatted calf
- (intransitive, archaic) To become fat; to fatten.
- (transitive, golf) To hit (a golf ball) with a fat shot.
- 2019 April 2, Reilly, Rick, How and why President Trump cheats at golf — even when he’s playing against Tiger Woods, archived from the original on 2022-03-29, retrieved 2022-03-31:}
- “On this one hole, Donald hits his second and fats it into the water,” Faxon remembers. “But he quickly says to me, ‘Hey, throw me another ball; they weren’t looking.’ So I do. But he fats that one into the water, too. So he drives up and drops where he should’ve dropped the first time and hits it on the green.”
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Translations
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Etymology 2
From Middle English fat, from Old English fæt (“vat, vessel, jar, cup, casket, division”), from Proto-Germanic *fatą (“vessel”), from Proto-Indo-European *pod- (“vessel”). Cognate with Dutch vat (“barrel, vessel”), German Fass (“barrel, drum”), Swedish fat (“barrel, dish, cask”). See vat.
Noun
fat (plural fats)
- (obsolete) A large tub or vessel for water, wine, or other liquids; a cistern.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Joel 2:24, column 1:
- And the floores ſhall bee full of wheate, and the fats ſhall ouerflowe with wine and oyle.
- 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 429:
- In 1431 New College purchases brewing vessels, under the names of a mash fat, for 6s. 10d., a wort fat for 2s., a 'Gilleding' tub for 2s. 6d., and two tunning barrels at 8d. each, a leaden boiler for 24s., another for 12s., and a great copper beer pot for 13s. 4d.
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- (obsolete) A dry measure, generally equal to nine bushels.
Synonyms
- vat
Derived terms
- keelfat
Translations
See also
- fat choy (etymologically unrelated)
Anagrams
- AFT, ATF, FTA, TAF, TFA, Taf, aft, aft-, taf
Albanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin fātum.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [fat]
Noun
fat m (indefinite plural fate, definite singular fat, definite plural fatet)
- luck
- chance
- Synonym: shans, rast, mundësi
- fate
- destiny
- spouse
Declension
indefinite forms (trajta të pashquara) | definite forms (trajta të shquara) | ||||
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singular (numri njëjës) | plural (numri shumës) | singular (numri njëjës) | plural (numri shumës) | ||
nominative (emërore) | (një) fat | (disa) fate | fati | fatet | |
accusative (kallëzore) | (një) fat | (disa) fate | fatin | fatet | |
genitive (gjinore) (i/e/të/së) | (një) fati | (disa) fateve | fatit | fatevet | |
dative (dhanore) | (një) fati | (disa) fateve | fatit | fatevet | |
ablative (rrjedhore) (prej) | (një) fati | (disa) fatesh | fatit | fatevet |
References
- Schumacher, Stefan; Matzinger, Joachim (2013) Die Verben des Altalbanischen: Belegwörterbuch, Vorgeschichte und Etymologie (Albanische Forschungen; 33) (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 211
Buli (Indonesia)
Etymology
From Proto-Halmahera-Cenderawasih *pat, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *pat, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.
Numeral
fat
- four
Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /ˈfat/
- Rhymes: -at
Etymology 1
From Latin fātum.
Noun
fat m (uncountable)
- fate, destiny
Related terms
- fatal
Etymology 2
From Latin fatuus.
Adjective
fat (feminine fada, masculine plural fats, feminine plural fades)
- bland, insipid
- Synonym: insuls
Related terms
- fatu
Further reading
- “fat” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Chuukese
Adjective
fat
- clear, transparent
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French fat (“conceited; dandy”), from Latin fatuus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fɑt/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: fat
- Rhymes: -ɑt
Noun
fat m (plural fatten or fats, diminutive fatje n)
- dandy, a man obsessed with his looks
- Synonyms: dandy, pronker, saletjonker
Derived terms
- fatterig
- fattig
French
Etymology
From Old Occitan fat, from Latin fatuus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fat/
Audio (file)
- IPA(key): /fa/ (dated)
Adjective
fat (feminine fate, masculine plural fats, feminine plural fates)
- conceited
Further reading
- “fat”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- taf
Friulian
Etymology 1
From Latin factus.
Verb
fat
- past participle of fâ
Adjective
fat
- done, made
- ripe
Etymology 2
From Latin factum.
Noun
fat m (plural fats)
- fact, deed
Related terms
- fâ
- fatôr
Hausa
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fát/
- (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [ɸát]
Ideophone
fat
- bright white
Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse fat, from Proto-Germanic *fatą, from Proto-Indo-European *pod-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /faːt/
- Rhymes: -aːt
Noun
fat n (genitive singular fats, nominative plural föt)
- vat
- item of clothing
Declension
n-s | singular | plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | fat | fatið | föt | fötin |
accusative | fat | fatið | föt | fötin |
dative | fati | fatinu | fötum | fötunum |
genitive | fats | fatsins | fata | fatanna |
Kowiai
Etymology
From Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.
Numeral
fat
- four
Ladin
Noun
fat m (plural fac)
- fact
Derived terms
- de fat
Adjective
fat m (feminine singular fata, masculine plural fats, feminine plural fates)
- done
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English fæt, from Proto-West Germanic *fat, from Proto-Germanic *fatą.
Alternative forms
- faat, vat, vaat, fet, vet
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fat/, /faːt/, /vat/, /vaːt/
Noun
fat (plural fattes or faten)
- vessel
Descendants
- English: vat, fat
- Scots: fat, vat, vautt
- Yola: vaat, vaate
References
- “fā̆t, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2
From Old English fǣtt, from Proto-West Germanic *faitid.
Alternative forms
- faat, fet, feet, vat, vet
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fat/, /faːt/, /fɛt/, /fɛːt/, /vat/, /vɛt/
Adjective
fat
- fattened, fatted
Descendants
- English: fat
- Yola: vat
References
- “fā̆t, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse fat.
Noun
fat n (definite singular fatet, indefinite plural fat or fater, definite plural fata or fatene)
- plate, dish
- barrel, drum, cask
Derived terms
- tefat
References
- “fat” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fɑːt/
Etymology 1
From Old Norse fat, Proto-Germanic *fatą.
Noun
fat n (definite singular fatet, indefinite plural fat, definite plural fata)
- plate, dish
- barrel, drum, cask
Derived terms
- tefat
- oljefat
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
fat
- imperative of fata
References
- “fat” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Frisian
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *fait. Cognates include Old Saxon *fēt and Old Norse feitr.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfat/
- Hyphenation: fat
Noun
fat m
- fat
Descendants
- Saterland Frisian: Fat
References
- Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 28
Old Saxon
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *fatą.
Noun
fat n
- vessel, cup
Declension
singular | plural | |
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nominative | fat | fatu |
accusative | fat | fatu |
genitive | fates | fatō |
dative | fate | fatum |
instrumental | — | — |
Romagnol
Verb
fat
- past participle of fêr (“to do”)
Saterland Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian fatt, from Proto-West Germanic *faitid. Cognates include West Frisian fet and German fett.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fat/
- Hyphenation: fat
- Rhymes: -at
Adjective
fat (inflected fatte, comparative fatter, superlative fatst)
- fat
- fattened
Related terms
- Fat
References
- Marron C. Fort (2015), “fat”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN
Slavomolisano
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian fatto.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fât/
Noun
fat m
- story
- 2010, Rino John Gliosca, “Bonifacio en Amérique”:
- Drugi fat ka vami hočam povidat je do jenga čeljada ka sa zovaša Bonifač.
- Another story that I want to tell you is about a person who was called Bonifacio.
- 2010, Rino John Gliosca, “Bonifacio en Amérique”:
Declension
singular | plural | |
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nominative | fat | fata |
genitive | fata | fati |
dative | fatu | fati |
accusative | fat | fata |
locative | fatu | fata |
instrumental | fatom, fatam | fati |
References
- Breu, W., Mader Skender, M. B. & Piccoli, G. 2013. Oral texts in Molise Slavic (Italy): Acquaviva Collecroce. In Adamou, E., Breu, W., Drettas, G. & Scholze, L. (eds.). 2013. EuroSlav2010: Elektronische Datenbank bedrohter slavischer Varietäten in nichtslavophonen Ländern Europas – Base de données électronique de variétés slaves menacées dans des pays européens non slavophones. Konstanz: Universität / Paris: Lacito (Internet Publication).
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse fat, from Proto-Germanic *fatą, from Proto-Indo-European *pod-.
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Noun
fat n
- saucer; a small dish
- plate (serving dish)
- barrel (oil or wine), cask, keg (beer)
- barrel; a unit of volume. Usually referring to the oil barrel of 158.9873 liters
Declension
Declension of fat | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | fat | fatet | fat | faten |
Genitive | fats | fatets | fats | fatens |
Derived terms
- (saucer): tefat
- (serving dish): serveringsfat, kakfat
- (barrel; container): fatöl
Idioms
- ha någons huvud på ett fat ― have someone's head on a platter
- det ligger någon i fatet ― it's in someone's plate (about something that is, or is by others perceived as, an obstacle (physical or mental) to someone)
Tày
Pronunciation
- (Thạch An – Tràng Định) IPA(key): [faːt̚˧˥]
- (Trùng Khánh) IPA(key): [faːt̚˦]
Adjective
fat
- sick
Verb
fat
- to ferment
- to become
References
- Hoàng Văn Ma; Lục Văn Pảo; Hoàng Chí (2006) Từ điển Tày-Nùng-Việt [Tay-Nung-Vietnamese dictionary] (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Từ điển Bách khoa Hà Nội
Tboli
Etymology
From Proto-Philippine *əpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.
Numeral
fat
- four
Volapük
Etymology
From German Vater or English father.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fat/
Noun
fat (nominative plural fats)
- father
Declension
singular | plural | |
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nominative | fat | fats |
genitive | fata | fatas |
dative | fate | fates |
accusative | fati | fatis |
vocative 1 | o fat! | o fats! |
predicative 2 | fatu | fatus |
- 1 status as a case is disputed
- 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only
Derived terms
- fatül
- lefat
- lüfat
Wolof
Verb
fat
- to shelter
References
Omar Ka (2018) Nanu Dégg Wolof, National African Language Resource Center, →ISBN, page 19
Yamdena
Alternative forms
- fate
Etymology
From Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.
Numeral
fat
- four