fatty
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fatties
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Disparaging and Offensive. a person who is overweight or obese (sometimes used as a term of address).
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a large marijuana cigarette, often shared and consumed by a group, with a shape and size similar to a cigar.
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containing, consisting of, or derived from fat
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having the properties of fat; greasy; oily
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(esp of tissues, organs, etc) characterized by the excessive accumulation of fat
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Etymology
Origin of fatty1
Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; see origin at fat, -y 1
Origin of fatty2
First recorded in 1790–1800 fatty 2 ( def. 1 ); 2003 fatty 2 ( def. 2 ); see origin at fat, -y 2
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One study showed that drinking blood orange juice for a month increased the number of gut bacteria that produce short-chain fatty acids.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 13, 2026
The findings support earlier evidence showing that fatty liver disease and insulin resistance are the main disease processes affecting people in Tübingen's type 2 diabetes risk cluster 5.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 28, 2026
Sometimes known as "Doctor Death", he became famous for developing a technique called plastination, by which fluids and fatty tissue in corpses are replaced by rubber and polymers.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
All the same, the fatty acid profile of tallow does overlap with some lipids found in human skin and sebum, including palmitic, stearic and oleic acids.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
The strong fatty cheese tastes just like the kind Prim makes, the apples are sweet and crunchy.
From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
I’d probably be considered a bad fatty and so would a lot of other fatties I know.
From Time ● Jan. 5, 2015
And I know it's a morality tale like Shockheaded Peter, but those children were bullies and pyromaniacs, not shy fatties.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 26, 2013
Pigeons don’t migrate, though, and despite their seasonal weight gain, birds tend not to be among the world’s top fatties.
From Slate ● Apr. 18, 2012
“No. They’re sports stars, actors, artists. The men with stringy hair are musicians, I think. The really ugly ones are politicians, and someone told me the fatties are mostly comedians.”
From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld
Say, all the fifty-seven varieties was represented,—tall ones, short ones, thin ones,219 plump ones, and plain fatties.
From Torchy by George Brehm
It could be that processing the ground pork patties, which involved grinding the meat and adding the fattier meat to the lean, affected the kinetics of digestion.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2025
On rare occasions, we get bluefin tuna that’s been raised sustainably and with that fattier tuna we’re able to do some different things.
From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2024
They often import lean beef from countries such as Australia and New Zealand to blend with fattier U.S. supplies to make hamburgers.
From Reuters ● Nov. 10, 2023
But it won’t make up for the loss of the Chinook, which are bigger, fattier fish that are in higher demand.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 25, 2023
"I wonder if you have anything to do with an old friend of my fattier, Archdeacon Bakkus?"
From The Mountebank by William John Locke
The brain is the body's fattiest organ, with fatty compounds called lipids making up 60% of its weight.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 5, 2024
Chinook are the biggest, fattiest and highest-quality salmon.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 31, 2023
Many people nowadays shy from eating pork, especially the fattiest parts, but it serves as the base and the literal meat and bones of Hoppin’ John.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 23, 2022
Cold water produces the biggest, fattiest varieties of zooplankton.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 15, 2020
A lumbering, chunky beast clad in a sheep-like coat of hair, it is the hairiest and fattiest of pigs.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 27, 2019
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