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fatty boombalatty

noun

Etymology

From a 19th century children's rhyme: "Fatty, Fatty, Boom-a-latty; This is the way he goes! He is so large around the waist, he can not see his toes!". Earliest written attestation from 1899.

Definitions

  1. An extremely obese person.

    • Fatty Jones proposed it over his shoulders as he waddled along in the dust. The rest whoop wild agreement. "Fatty, Fatty, boom-a-latty," they screeched joyously.[…]
    • O well, never mind, mother, he can have the ‘fatty, fatty, boom-a-latties’ and I will eat the 'petit pois'. They are sweetest. […]
    • This fatty-fatty-boombalatty kid, Ed Linke, who is pitching himself into a regular's berth on the Nats' trip home, is pretty full of awareness, for a rookie.

  2. An extremely thick joint or blunt of marijuana.

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