fat

sq-noun

fat m (plural fate, definite fat, definite plural fatet)

fate (plural)
fat (definite)
fatet (definite plural)
fat (indefinite nominative singular)
fati (definite nominative singular)
fate (indefinite nominative plural)
fatet (definite nominative plural)
fat (accusative indefinite singular)
fatin (accusative definite singular)
fate (accusative indefinite plural)
fatet (accusative definite plural)
fati (dative indefinite singular)
fatit (dative definite singular)
fateve (dative indefinite plural)
fateve (dative definite plural)
fati (ablative indefinite singular)
fatit (ablative definite singular)
fatesh (ablative indefinite plural)
fateve (ablative definite plural)

Borrowed from Latin fātum. Jolk claims a derivation from Gothic fadi-


fat

From Proto-Halmahera-Cenderawasih *pat, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *pat, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.


fat

ca-adj

fat (feminine fada, masculine plural fats, feminine plural fades)

fada (feminine)
fats (masculine plural)
fades (feminine plural)


fat

nl-noun

fat m (plural fatten or fats, diminutive fatje n)

fatten (plural)
fats (plural)
fatje (diminutive neuter)

Borrowed from French fat (“conceited; dandy”), from Latin fatuus.


fat

The fat man had trouble getting through the door.

The fattest pig should yield the most meat.

1932, New Orleans (La.) Board of Health, Vox Sanitatis
While Hennessey is pouring the milk, the fat guy with the big pot-belly, will come over and write a lot of junk in his little book.

[…] Ruth‐ellen Stark and Elizabeth Ryan are about ten times fatter, but even they can't compare to Bruce…”

1976 September 29, Richard Flaste, “Viewing Childhood As it Is”, in The New York Times:

Because, really, who would like the fat girl? Sebastian said I was crazy for thinking that.

2014, Isabel Quintero, Gabi, a Girl in Pieces, Cinco Puntos Press, →ISBN, page 46:

Carrying more fat than usual on one's body; plump; not lean or thin.

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.

1861, Charles James Lever, A Day's Ride:

So this was my future home, I thought! […] Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.

1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

Oily; greasy; unctuous; rich (said of food).

Make the heart of this people fat,[…]

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 6:10, column 1:

1855 July 21, Ralph Waldo Emerson, letter to Walter Whitman
making our western wits fat & mean

(obsolete) Exhibiting the qualities of a fat animal; coarse; heavy; gross; dull; stupid.

Land was fatter, soil was rich, hands were many

1974, “Which Way Africa”, performed by Tunji Oyelana:

a fat soil; a fat pasture

a fat benefice; a fat office;  a fat job

now parson of Troston, a fat living in Suffolk

Rich; producing a large income; desirable.

, "Why Christ's Doctrine was Rejected"
persons grown fat and wealthy by a long and successful imposture

Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate.

a fat take; a fat page

(dated, printing) Of a character which enables the compositor to make large wages; said of matter containing blank, cuts, or many leads, etc.

Hitting a thin shot from a fairway bunker is more productive than hitting a fat shot.

1992, DeDe Owens, Linda K. Bunker, Advanced Golf: Steps to Success, page 81:

(golf) Being a shot in which the ground is struck before the ball.

He is what the theatre calls a “fat” role — a man suddenly confronted by a terrible duty. He is called upon to revenge the murder of his father and to right a wrong against the state.

1965, Edmund Fuller, A Pageant of the Theatre, page 131:

He seeks a fat role in a hit show, lest he diminish his market value.

1997, Harold Clurman, On Directing, page 12:

Joe Hirakawa, formerly of the Seattle Civic Repertory Theatre, was a waterfront peddler in “Madame Butterfly” and had a fat role in “Beauty Parlor,” an indie.

2012, Greg Robinson, Larry S. Tajiri, Pacific Citizens, page 9:

(theater) Of a role: significant; major; meaty.

1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
I'd've liked to hang around but the guys were in a fat hurry.

(slang) Being greatly or substantially such; real.

fat client

a fat pointer

(computing) Carrying additional data or functionality.

This isn't a place to talk about “hitting the decks” and making “fat beats”—you're not selling to an industry peer.

2011, Joe Shambro, How to Start a Home-based DJ Business, page 19:

en-adj

fat (comparative fatter, superlative fattest)

fatter (comparative)
fattest (superlative)

Of sense: lean

carrying a larger than normal amount of fat; antonym(s) of

Sranan Tongo: fatu

trashë

carrying a larger than normal amount of fat on one's body

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”).


fat

Mammals that hibernate have plenty of fat to keep them warm during the winter.

(uncountable) 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.

en:adipose tissue, in situ
en:adipose tissue, as food

Such tissue as food: the fatty portion of (or trimmings from) meat cuts.

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.

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.

2018, Kristin Lawless, Formerly known as food, →ISBN, page 32:

en:lipid that is solid at room temperature

(countable) 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.

We need to trim the fat in this company

That part of an organization deemed wasteful.

I saw Daniel crack a fat.

(golf) A poorly played shot where the ball is struck by the top part of the club head. (see also thin, shank, toe)

to live on the fat of the land

The best or richest productions; the best part.

(dated, printing) Work containing much blank, or its equivalent, and therefore profitable to the compositor.

Prefer military, bodybuilders, jocks. No smokers or fats please.

1996, Roger Stone, "Local Swing Fever", highlighted by National Enquirer in September 1996 and Daily Mail in January 2019

Before riding over to the fats we'll have a look about us.

1934, Henry G. Lamond, An Aviary On The Plains, page 7:

lard

in animals; derogatory slang when used of human fat

grease

Sranan Tongo: fatu

yndyrë

refined substance chemically resembling the oils in animal fat

ramo secco

that part of an organization deemed wasteful

From Middle English fat, fatt, fatte, from the adjective above, and possibly from Old English fǣt (“fat”, recorded once), from Proto-West Germanic *fait, from Proto-Germanic *faitą, *faitaz (“fat”).


fat

kill the fatted calf

(transitive, archaic) To make fat; to fatten.

(intransitive, archaic) To become fat; to fatten.

“On this one hole, Donald hits his second and fats it into the water,” Faxon remembers. “But he quickly says to me, ‘Hey, throw me another ball; they weren’t looking.’ So I do. But he fats that one into the water, too. So he drives up and drops where he should’ve dropped the first time and hits it on the green.”

2019 April 2, Rick Reilly, How and why President Trump cheats at golf — even when he’s playing against Tiger Woods, archived from the original on 2022-03-29:

(transitive, golf) To hit (a golf ball) with a fat shot.

en-verb

fat (third-person singular simple present fats, present participle fatting, simple past and past participle fatted)

fats (present singular third-person)
fatting (participle present)
fatted (participle past)
fatted (past)


fat

And the floores ſhall bee full of wheate, and the fats ſhall ouerflowe with wine and oyle.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Joel 2:24, column 1:

In 1431 New College purchases brewing vessels, under the names of a mash fat, for 6s. 10d., a wort fat for 2s., a 'Gilleding' tub for 2s. 6d., and two tunning barrels at 8d. each, a leaden boiler for 24s., another for 12s., and a great copper beer pot for 13s. 4d.

1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 429:

(obsolete) A large tub or vessel for water, wine, or other liquids; a cistern.

(obsolete) A dry measure, generally equal to nine bushels.

From Middle English fat, from Old English fæt (“vat, vessel, jar, cup, casket, division”), from Proto-Germanic *fatą (“vessel”), from Proto-Indo-European *pod- (“vessel”). Cognate with Dutch vat (“barrel, vessel”), German Fass (“barrel, drum”), Swedish fat (“barrel, dish, cask”). See vat.


fat

fr-adj

fat (feminine fate, masculine plural fats, feminine plural fates)

fate (feminine)
fats (masculine plural)
fates (feminine plural)

From Old Occitan fat, from Latin fatuus.


fat

head

fat n (genitive singular fats, nominative plural föt)

fats (genitive singular)
föt (nominative plural)
fat (indefinite nominative singular)
fatið (definite nominative singular)
föt (indefinite nominative plural)
fötin (definite nominative plural)
fat (accusative indefinite singular)
fatið (accusative definite singular)
föt (accusative indefinite plural)
fötin (accusative definite plural)
fati (dative indefinite singular)
fatinu (dative definite singular)
fötum (dative indefinite plural)
fötunum (dative definite plural)
fats (genitive indefinite singular)
fatsins (definite genitive singular)
fata (genitive indefinite plural)
fatanna (definite genitive plural)

From Old Norse fat, from Proto-Germanic *fatą, from Proto-Indo-European *pod-.


fat

From Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.


fat

lld-adj

fat m (feminine singular fata, masculine plural fats, feminine plural fates)

fata (feminine singular)
fats (masculine plural)
fates (feminine plural)


fat

English: vat, fat

Scots: fat, vat, vautt

Yola: vaat, vaate

From Old English fæt, from Proto-West Germanic *fat, from Proto-Germanic *fatą.


fat

English: fat

Yola: vat

From Old English fǣtt, from Proto-West Germanic *faitid.


fat

head

fat (comparative fater, superlative fatst)

fater (comparative)
fatst (superlative)
fat (positive)
fat (attributive positive)
faten (indefinite independent positive singular)
fat (definite independent positive singular)
faten (independent plural positive)
fats (partitive positive singular)
fater (comparative)
fater (attributive comparative)
fateren (comparative indefinite independent singular)
fater (comparative definite independent singular)
fateren (comparative independent plural)
faters (comparative partitive singular)
am fatsten (superlative)
fatst (attributive superlative)
fatst (definite independent singular superlative)
fatsten (independent plural superlative)

From Old Frisian fatt, from Proto-West Germanic *faitid. Cognates include West Frisian fet and German fett.


fat

fatet (definite singular)
fat (indefinite plural)
fater (indefinite plural)
fata (definite plural)
fatene (definite plural)


fat

fatet (definite singular)
fat (indefinite plural)
fata (definite plural)

From Old Norse fat, Proto-Germanic *fatą.


fat

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.


fat

Saterland Frisian: Fat

From Proto-West Germanic *fait. Cognates include Old Saxon *fēt and Old Norse feitr.


fat

fat (nominative singular)
fatu (nominative plural)
fat (accusative singular)
fatu (accusative plural)
fates (genitive singular)
fatō (genitive plural)
fate (dative singular)
fatum (dative plural)


fat

South Halmahera

Buli

Buli (Indonesia): fat

From Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *pat, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.


fat

fat (nominative singular)
fatu (nominative plural)
fat (accusative singular)
fatu (accusative plural)
fatas (genitive singular)
fatō (genitive plural)
fatē (dative singular)
fatum (dative plural)
fatu (instrumental singular)
fatum (instrumental plural)

Old English: fæt

Middle English: fat, fet, vat, vet

Scots: fat, vat, vautt

English: fat, vat

Old Frisian: fet

Saterland Frisian: Fät

West Frisian: fet

Old Saxon: fat

Middle Low German: vat

German Low German: Fatt

Low German: Vat

Old Dutch: fat, vat

Middle Dutch: vat

Dutch: vat, vaat

Old High German: faz

Middle High German: vaz, vas

Cimbrian: vass, bass (Mezzaselva)

German: Fass

Luxembourgish: Faass


fat

head

fat (masculine fatten, feminine, plural or definite fatte, comparative fatter, superlative fatst)

fatten (masculine)
fatte (definite plural)
fatter (comparative)
fatst (superlative)


fat

Drugi fat ka vami hočam povidat je do jenga čeljada ka sa zovaša Bonifač.

2010, Rino John Gliosca, Bonifacio en Amérique:

Another story that I want to tell you is about a person who was called Bonifacio.

È, lisice su semaj furb, kana na tuna fata!

2010, Natalina Spadanuda, Le renard et le loup:

Ha, foxes are always clever, like in all the stories!

fat (nominative singular)
fata (nominative plural)
fata (genitive singular)
fati (genitive plural)
fatu (dative singular)
fati (dative plural)
fat (accusative singular)
fata (accusative plural)
fatu (locative singular)
fata (locative plural)
fatom (instrumental singular)
fatam (instrumental singular)
fati (instrumental plural)


fat

plate, platter (for serving food rather than eating from)

barrel; a unit of volume, usually referring to the oil barrel of 158.9873 liters

fat (indefinite nominative singular)
fatet (definite nominative singular)
fat (indefinite nominative plural)
faten (definite nominative plural)
fats (genitive indefinite singular)
fatets (definite genitive singular)
fats (genitive indefinite plural)
fatens (definite genitive plural)

det ligger någon i fatet

it's in someone's plate; about something that is, or is by others perceived as, an obstacle (physical or mental) to someone


fat

From Proto-Philippine *əpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.


fat

(international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Fante.


fat

Fat olsik sevom utosi, kelosi neodols, büä plekols ome.

1952, Arie de Jong, Diatek nulik: Gospul ma ‚Matthaeus’. Kapit: VI:

Your Father knows what you need before you ask him.

Fat obik ed olikan binoms flens.

1932, Arie de Jong, Leerboek der Wereldtaal, page 13:

fats (nominative plural)
fat (nominative singular)
fats (nominative plural)
fata (genitive singular)
fatas (genitive plural)
fate (dative singular)
fates (dative plural)
fati (accusative singular)
fatis (accusative plural)
o fat! (singular vocative)
o fats! (plural vocative)
fatu (predicative singular)
fatus (plural predicative)