fatty

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”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfæt.i/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈfæɾ.i/

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• Rhymes: -æti

fatty (comparative fattier, superlative fattiest)

1. Containing, composed of, or consisting of fat.
   • 1896, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “Chapter 14”, in The Island of Doctor Moreau (Heinemann’s Colonial Library of Popular Fiction; 52), London: William Heinemann, →OCLC; republished as The Island of Doctor Moreau: A Possibility, New York, N.Y.: Stone & Kimball, 1896, →OCLC:

     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.

   • 2002, George W. Bush, Presidential Radio Address - June 22:

     That means eating fruits and vegetables and cutting back on fatty foods.

   • 2013 July-August, Stephen P. Lownie, David M. Pelz, “Stents to Prevent Stroke”, in American Scientist:

     As we age, the major arteries of our bodies frequently become thickened with plaque, a fatty material with an oatmeal-like consistency that builds up along the inner lining of blood vessels.

2. Like fat; greasy.

   Synonym: fatlike

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.

   • 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, “CHAPTER XXXII”, in Great Expectations […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC:

     […] which had a greasy and fatty surface like cold broth

4. (slang) Literally or figuratively large.
   • 2007, getting rid of weed smell tips‎:

     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!

   • 2007, A. Bryant, Disappointment to Say the Least‎:

     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.

   • 2007, Rimma

     I'm trying to get a fatty project done in a couple of hours right now.

• steatotic

From fat +‎ -y (diminutive suffix).

• fattie

fatty (plural fatties)

1. (derogatory, slang) An obese person.

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

2. (slang) A large marijuana cigar; a blunt.
   • 2004, Anthony Kiedis, Larry Sloman, Scar Tissue:

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

• See also Thesaurus:fat person
• See also Thesaurus:marijuana cigarette