"superfat" meaning in English

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Adjective

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-superfat.wav Forms: more superfat [comparative], most superfat [superlative]
Etymology: From super- + fat. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|super-|fat}} super- + fat Head templates: {{en-adj}} superfat (comparative more superfat, superlative most superfat)
  1. (informal) Extremely obese. Tags: informal
    Sense id: en-superfat-en-adj-AQeJ6f38 Categories (other): Obesity Disambiguation of Obesity: 64 36 0

Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-superfat.wav Forms: superfats [plural]
Etymology: From super- + fat. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|super-|fat}} super- + fat Head templates: {{en-noun}} superfat (plural superfats)
  1. (informal) An extremely obese person. Tags: informal
    Sense id: en-superfat-en-noun-BEn~6~5H

Verb

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-superfat.wav Forms: superfats [present, singular, third-person], superfatting [participle, present], superfatted [participle, past], superfatted [past]
Etymology: From super- + fat. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|super-|fat}} super- + fat Head templates: {{en-verb|++}} superfat (third-person singular simple present superfats, present participle superfatting, simple past and past participle superfatted)
  1. To use excess fat in soapmaking to consume the alkali and give the soap a more moisturizing effect.
    Sense id: en-superfat-en-verb-v0B-WSQe Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with super-, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 10 18 73 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with super-: 21 18 60 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 5 6 89 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 5 6 90

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-04-26 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-04-01 using wiktextract (7de0cf9 and 9452535). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.