fatty
/ˈfæt.i/ adjective, noun
Forms fattier fattiest fatties fattie
- adjective Containing, composed of, or consisting of fat. “fatty tissues”
- adjective Sometimes, especially, containing excess fat. “fatty liver”
- adjective Like fat; greasy.
- adjective Of or related to fat. “fatty acid”
- adjective (slang) Literally or figuratively large.
- noun (derogatory, slang) An obese person. “It's hardly surprising, when it has to support that enormous gut! Lose some weight, fatty!”
- noun (slang) A large marijuana cigar; a blunt.
- noun A type of game played with marbles.
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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”).
From fat + -y (diminutive suffix).
Webster’s 1913
- adjective Containing fat, or having the qualities of fat; greasy; gross; as, a fatty substance. Fatty acid (Chem.), any one of the paraffin series of monocarbonic acids, as formic acid, acetic, etc.; --so called because the higher members, as stearic and palmitic acids, occur in the natural fats, and are themselves fatlike substances.
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “fatty”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details