fat

• enPR: făt, IPA^(key): /fæt/

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• Rhymes: -æt
• Homophone: phat

A fat cat

From Middle English fat, from Old English fǣtt (“fatted, fat”), from Proto-Germanic *faitidaz (“fatted”), originally the past participle of the verb *faitijaną (“to make fat”), from *faitaz (“fat”). Cognate with German feist (“fatted, plump, obese”). Related also to Saterland Frisian fat (“fat”), Dutch vet (“fat”), German fett (“fat, corpulent”), Swedish fet (“fat, oily, fatty”), Icelandic feitur (“fat”).

fat (comparative fatter, superlative fattest)

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

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

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

   The fat man had trouble getting through the door.

   The fattest pig should yield the most meat.

2. Thick.

   The fat wallets of the men from the city brought joy to the peddlers.

   • 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 731476803:

     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.

3. Bountiful.
4. Oily; greasy; unctuous; rich; said of food.
5. (obsolete) Exhibiting the qualities of a fat animal; coarse; heavy; gross; dull; stupid.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Ralph Waldo Emerson

     making our western wits fat and mean

   • Bible, Isaiah vi. 10

     Make the heart of this people fat.

6. Fertile; productive.

   a fat soil;  a fat pasture

7. Rich; producing a large income; desirable.

   a fat benefice;  a fat office;  a fat job

   • (Can we date this quote?) Thomas Carlyle

     now parson of Troston, a fat living in Suffolk

8. Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Jonathan Swift

     persons grown fat and wealthy by long impostures

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

   a fat take;  a fat page

10. Alternative form of phat

• (carrying a larger than normal amount of fat): chubby, chunky, corpulent, lardy (slang), obese, overweight, plump, porky (slang), rotund, tubby, well-fed; see also Thesaurus:obese
• (thick): thick
• (bountiful): bountiful, prosperous
• (obese):

• Of sense (carrying a larger than normal amount of fat): lean, skinny, slender, slim, thin

• Sranan Tongo: fatu

fat (usually uncountable, plural fats)

1. (uncountable) A specialized animal tissue with a high oil content, used for long-term storage of energy.
2. (countable) A refined substance chemically resembling the oils in animal fat.
3. That part of an organization deemed wasteful.

   We need to trim the fat in this company

4. (slang) An erection.

   I saw Daniel crack a fat.

5. (golf) A poorly played shot where the ball is struck by the top part of the club head. (see also thin, shank, toe)
6. The best or richest productions; the best part.

   to live on the fat of the land

7. (dated, printing) Work containing much blank, or its equivalent, and therefore profitable to the compositor.
8. a fat person
   • 1996, Roger Stone, "Local Swing Fever", highlighted by National Enquirer in September 1996 and Daily Mail in January 2019

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

• (animal tissue): adipose tissue, lard (in animals; derogatory slang when used of human fat)
• (substance chemically resembling the oils in animal fat): grease, lard
• (fat person): fatty, fatso see also Thesaurus:fat person

• Sranan Tongo: fatu

• fat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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

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

   kill the fatted calf

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

From Middle English, 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 (plural fats)

1. (obsolete) A large tub or vessel for water, wine, or other liquids; a cistern.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Joel 2:24:

     And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the fats shall overflow with wine and oil.

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

     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.

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

• vat

• AFT, ATF, FTA, TAF, TFA, aft, taf

Borrowed from Latin fātum.[1]

• IPA^(key): [fat]

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

1. luck
2. chance
3. fate
4. destiny
5. spouse

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

1. four

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈfat/
• Rhymes: -at

From Latin fātum.

fat m (uncountable)

1. fate, destiny

• fatal

From Latin fatuus.

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

1. bland, insipid

   Synonym: insuls

• fatu

• “fat” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

fat

1. clear, transparent

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

• IPA^(key): /fɑt/

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• Hyphenation: fat
• Rhymes: -ɑt

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

1. dandy, a man obsessed with his looks

   Synonyms: dandy, pronker, saletjonker

• fatterig
• fattig

From Old Occitan fat, from Latin fatuus.

• IPA^(key): /fa/

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

1. conceited

• “fat” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• taf

From Latin factus.

fat

1. past participle of fâ

fat

1. done, made
2. ripe

From Latin factum.

fat m (plural fats)

1. fact, deed

• fâ
• fatôr

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

• IPA^(key): /faːt/
• Rhymes: -aːt

fat n (genitive singular fats, nominative plural föt)

1. vat
2. item of clothing

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

fat

1. four

fat m (plural fac)

1. fact

• de fat

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

1. done

Borrowed from Italian fatto.

• IPA^(key): /fât/

fat m

1. story

• Breu, W., Mader Skender, M. B. & Piccoli, G. 2013. Oral texts in Molise Slavic (Italy): Acquaviva Collecroce. In Adamou, E., Breu, W., Drettas, G. & Scholze, L. (eds.). 2013. EuroSlav2010: Elektronische Datenbank bedrohter slavischer Varietäten in nichtslavophonen Ländern Europas – Base de données électronique de variétés slaves menacées dans des pays européens non slavophones. Konstanz: Universität / Paris: Lacito (Internet Publication).

From Old Norse fat

fat n (definite singular fatet, indefinite plural fat or fater, definite plural fata or fatene)

1. plate, dish
2. barrel, drum, cask

• tefat

• “fat” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse fat

• IPA^(key): /fɑːt/

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

1. plate, dish
2. barrel, drum, cask

• tefat

• “fat” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-Germanic *fatą.

fat n

1. vessel, cup

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

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fat n

1. saucer; a small dish
2. plate (serving dish)
3. barrel (oil or wine), cask, keg (beer)
4. barrel; a unit of volume. Usually referring to the oil barrel of 158.9873 liters

• (saucer): tefat
• (serving dish): serveringsfat, kakfat
• (barrel; container): fatöl

• ha någons huvud på ett fat ― have someone's head on a platter
• 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)

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

fat

1. four

From German Vater or English father.

• IPA^(key): /fat/

fat (plural fats)

1. father

• fatül
• lefat
• lüfat

• fate

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

fat

1. four