fatty bom bom

noun
/ˈfɛti(˦)ˌbɔm(˨)ˌbɔm(˨˦)/

Etymology

Derived from slang fatty (“a fat person”) + bom bom ("a sound imitative of the noise a fat person makes when walking"). Compare West Indian/Caribbean slang fatty bum-bum ‘a very fat person, esp. a woman with large buttocks’ (Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage, 1996), and Australian slang fatty boom-bah or fatty-boom-bah-sticks ‘a taunting nickname for a fat person’ (The Essential Lingo Dictionary of Australian Words and Phrases, 2015).

  1. derived from Usage

Definitions

  1. A fat or overweight person.

    • He skips 500 times a day and runs three kilometers a day to chase away his fatty bom bom blues.
    • “My family and friends were quite upset for me when they read it, but I don’t take it seriously,” said the 79kg heavyweight, who told us there were worse disparages like a “Go Home, Fatty Bom Bom” message posted on the Talentime forum.
    • I remember, too, a ditty: "Fatty, fatty bom bom, curi curi jagung; mata-mata tangkap, masuk dalam lokap" (the fat one steals the corn, gets arrested by police and is thrown into the lock-up.

The neighborhood

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