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fatty

adj
/ˈfæt.i/UK/ˈfæt.i/US

Etymology

From Middle English fatty, equivalent to fat + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian fattig (“fatty”), Dutch vettig (“fatty, greasy”), German Low German fettig (“fatty”), German fettig (“fatty”).

  1. inherited from fatty

Definitions

  1. Containing, composed of, or consisting of fat.

    • fatty tissues
    • fatty meats
    • Then in the case of excisions you have all kinds of secondary changes, pigmentary disturbances, modifications of the passions, alterations in the secretion of fatty tissue.

  2. Like fat

    Like fat; greasy.

  3. Of or related to fat.

    • fatty acid
    • fatty alcohol
    • 1849, Hippocrates (Translated by Francis Bacon), Of the Epidemics, Book II, Section 1. On the sixth, stools black, fatty, viscid, fetid; slept, more collected.
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. Literally or figuratively large.

      • Be careful of the taxi drivers out there though, I've heard they sell you drugs, drop you off at your hotel and then dob you in to the Thai Police to get a fatty reward!
      • Instead of going my normal route (ordering the book through the store, checking it out in person, and then ordering it online so I could get a fatty discount) I impulsively bought the book.
      • I'm trying to get a fatty project done in a couple of hours right now.

    2. An obese person.

      • It's hardly surprising, when it has to support that enormous gut! Lose some weight, fatty!

    3. A large marijuana cigar

      A large marijuana cigar; a blunt.

      • We went to Plaster Creek, smoked a fattie, and emerged doing somersaults and cartwheels and laughing.

    4. A type of game played with marbles.

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Derived

fattily, fattiness, fatty acid, fatty alcohol, fatty bom bom, fatty boombalatty, fatty cutty, fatty liver, fatty oil, fibrofatty, nonfatty, partially defatted pork fatty tissue, superfatty, unfatty

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at fatty. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at fatty. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at fatty

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA