fatty

English

Etymology 1

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”).

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -æti

Adjective

fatty (comparative fattier, superlative fattiest)

1. Containing, composed of, or consisting of fat.

   fatty tissues

   fatty meats

   • 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.

   1. Sometimes, especially, containing excess fat.

      Synonym: steatotic

      fatty liver

      fatty pancreas

      • 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 […], volume (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^[1]:

     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^[2]:

     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 [3]

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

Derived terms

• fattily
• fattiness
• fatty acid
• fatty alcohol
• fatty bom bom
• fatty boombalatty
• fatty cutty
• fatty liver
• fatty oil
• partially defatted pork fatty tissue

 

Related terms

• fattish

 

Translations

containing fat

• Bulgarian: тлъст (bg) (tlǎst)
• Catalan: gras (ca), greixós (ca)
• Czech: tučný (cs) m
• Dutch: vettig (nl)
• Esperanto: grasa (eo)
• Finnish: rasvainen (fi), rasvapitoinen (fi)
• French: gras (fr)
• Galician: graxo, gordo (gl)
• Georgian: ქონიანი (koniani)
• German: fettig (de)
• Hawaiian: mona, momona
• Indonesian: please add this translation if you can
• Irish: sailleach
• Italian: grasso (it)
• Macedonian: масен (masen)
• Malay: berlemak
• Occitan: graissós
• Persian: چرب (fa) (čarb)
• Polish: tłusty (pl)
• Portuguese: gorduroso (pt)
• Russian: жи́рный (ru) (žírnyj)
• Spanish: graso (es)
• Swedish: fet (sv)
• Turkish: yağlı (tr)
• Ukrainian: жи́рний (žýrnyj)
• Welsh: brasterog (cy)

like fat, greasy

• Bulgarian: мазен (bg) (mazen)
• Dutch: vettig (nl)
• Finnish: rasvainen (fi)
• French: gras (fr)
• German: fettig (de)
• Hawaiian: mona, momona
• Indonesian: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: grasso (it)
• Macedonian: масен (masen)
• Malay: lemak (ms)
• Maori: hinuhinu
• Persian: چرب (fa) (čarb)
• Portuguese: gordo (pt)
• Spanish: graso (es)
• Swedish: fettaktig, flottig (sv), fet (sv)
• Turkish: yağsı, yağımsı (tr)
• Welsh: brasterog (cy)

large

• Finnish: rasvainen (fi)
• Swedish: fet (sv)

Etymology 2

From fat +‎ -y (diminutive suffix).

Alternative forms

• fattie

Noun

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.

3. A type of game played with marbles.

Synonyms

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

Translations

fat person

• Afrikaans: vetsak
• Armenian: չաղո (čʻaġo)
• Burmese: ဖတ်တီး (my) (hpatti:)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: (young male) 肥仔 (fei⁴ zai²), (young female) 肥妹 (fei⁴ mui¹), (male) 肥佬 (fei⁴ lou²), (female) 肥婆 (fei⁴ po⁴)

  Mandarin: 胖子 (zh) (pàngzi)

• Czech: tlouštík m, tlusťoch (cs) m
• Dutch: vetzak (nl) m
• Esperanto: dikulo, grasulo
• Finnish: läski (fi), punkero (fi), pullukka (fi)
• Galician: gordecho
• German: Fettsack (de) m, Fettwanst (de) m

  Alemannic German: Bunse f (female)

• Japanese: ふとっちょ (futotcho)
• Macedonian: дебелко m (debelko), свинче n (svinče)
• Polish: beka (pl) f, baleron (pl) m, baryła f, baryłka (pl) f
• Portuguese: gordo (pt) m
• Romanian: grăsan (ro) m, grăsană f
• Russian: толстя́к (ru) m (tolstják), толсту́шка (ru) f (tolstúška)
• Spanish: gordito m, guatoncito m
• Swedish: fetknopp (sv) c, fetto (sv) n, tjockis (sv) c, tjocksmock (sv) c, rulta (sv) c