fat | Lernwerd

Forms

1.Thick; large.
- The fat wallets of the men from the city brought joy to the peddlers.
- The thickest salmon, the curdiest trout, the fattest partridge, and the most tender woodcock smoked on his board, and, rumor said, cooked with a delicacy that more pretentious houses could not rival.
2.Bulbous; rotund.
- Tom is very fat, isn't he?
- Is she pregnant or just fat?
3.Bountiful.
- Tom is very fat, isn't he?
- Is she pregnant or just fat?
4.Carrying more fat than usual on one's body; plump; not lean or thin.
- The fattest pig should yield the most meat.
- The fat man had problems going through the door.
- Because, really, who would like the fat girl? Sebastian said I was crazy for thinking that.

1.That part of an organization deemed wasteful.
2.An erection.(slang)
- I saw Daniel crack a fat.
3.A specialized animal tissue with high lipid content, used for long-term storage of energy: fat tissue.
- Ask the butcher for a few pounds of fat for our greens.
- Mammals that hibernate have plenty of fat to keep them warm during the winter.
4.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.
- 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.
- 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.

Uncommon· #2010

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”).