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Fatso

Definition: Fatso

Fatso

Noun

1. A rotund individual.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Synonyms: Fatso

Synonyms: fat person (n), fatty (n), roly-poly (n). (additional references)
Antonym: thin person (n). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Fatso

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Hey Tom, he's just a fat kid! Aren't ya fatty? He's a big ol' fat kid. Here's some chocolate fatso. (Family Guy; writing credit: Dolores Payás)

Alright, Winkle Van Heussen, then ipso fatso, it's good enough for Archie Bunker. (All in the Family; writing credit: Johnny Speight; Norman Lear)

Don't preach to me, fatso! (South Park; writing credit: Rocco Siffredi)

Movie/TV Titles

Fatso (1980)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Fatso

DomainTitle

Books

  

Theater & Movies

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Fatso

"Fatso" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 57.14% of the time. "Fatso" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)57.14%4175,879
Noun (proper)42.86%3202,518
                    Total100.00%7N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Fatso

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

fatso

57

fatso jetson

7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Fatso

Language Translations for "fatso"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

trashaman (fat-guts, frumpish, pudge), trashaluq (dumpling, dumpy, podgy). (various references)

   

German

  

fettsack, dickwanst. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

atsofay

   

Russian 

  

толстуха (horse godmother), толстяк (fat-guts, pudge, stouts). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

debeljko. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

gordo (corpulent, fat, fatty, fleshy, greasy, plump, porky, portly, rotund, stout, thick, top). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

tjockis (fat-guts, fatty, humpty dumpty, pudge, roly poly). (various references)

   

Thai

  

คนอ้วน (chubbo). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

tombik (podgy, pudgy), dobişko (fatty), şişko (fat, fatty, gross, obese, porky, roly poly). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

товстуха (chunk), товстун (chunk, fatty, pudge). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

chú bệu (fatty). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Fatso

Derivations

Words beginning with "fatso": fatsoes, fatsos. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Fatso

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: softa.

Words within the letters "a-f-o-s-t"

-1 letter: fast, fats, oafs, oast, oats, sofa, soft, stoa, taos.

-2 letters: aft, fas, fat, oaf, oat, oft, sat, sot, tao, tas.

-3 letters: as, at, fa, of, os, so, ta, to.

 Words containing the letters "a-f-o-s-t"
 

+1 letter: aftosa, fagots, fatsos, floats, flotas, softas.

 

+2 letters: aftmost, aftosas, castoff, factors, faggots, fantods, fantoms, fathoms, fatsoes, fatuous, flotsam, folates, formats, fossate, fugatos, offcast, outfast, sfumato.

 

+3 letters: afforest, affronts, batfowls, blastoff, boastful, boatfuls, castoffs, factions, factious, factoids, fadeouts, fagoters, faitours, fallouts, falsetto, fanworts, fastuous, fatstock, fatwoods, flattops, floatels, floaters, flokatis, flotages, flotsams, flyboats, foamiest, foliates, fondants, fontinas, footages, footpads, footways, forecast, foremast, forepast, forestal, forestay, formants, formates, foxtails, frontals, goatfish, haylofts, holdfast, isograft, nonfacts, offbeats, offcasts, offstage, outfaces, outfalls, outfasts, outfawns, outfeast, overfast, pooftahs, postface, refloats, seafront, sforzato, sfumatos, softback, softball, softhead, software, standoff, surfboat, takeoffs, toadfish.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Fatso


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 61 74 73 6F

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01100001 01110100 01110011 01101111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#97 &#116 &#115 &#111

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0061 0074 0073 006F

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4067868581

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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