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Fatty

Definition: Fatty

Fatty

Adjective

1. Containing or composed of fat; "fatty food"; "fat tissue".

Noun

1. A rotund individual.

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

Date "fatty" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references)


Abbreviations & Acronyms: Fatty

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField
FAAHEnglishFatty acid amine hydrolaseN/A

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

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Synonyms: Fatty

Synonyms: fat (adj), fat person (n), fatso (n), roly-poly (n). (additional references)
Antonyms: nonfat (adj), thin person (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Fatty

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Unctuousness

Adjective: unctuous, oily, oleaginous, adipose, sebaceous; unguinous; fat, fatty, greasy; waxy, butyraceous, soapy, saponaceous, pinguid, lardaceous; slippery.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Fatty

English words defined with "fatty": Fatty infiltration, Fatty tumormonounsaturated fatty acidpolyunsaturated fatty acidsaturated fatty acidtrans fatty acidunsaturated fatty acid. (references)
Specialty definitions using "fatty": essential fatty acid, essential fatty acidsFatty Acid Desaturases, Fatty Acids, Monounsaturated, Fatty Acids, Nonesterified, Fatty Acids, Omega-3, Fatty Acids, Unsaturated, Fatty Acids, Volatile, Fatty Liver, Alcoholicmono-unsaturated fatty acidsOmega-3 Fatty Acids, Omega-6 Fatty Acidstall oil fatty acid. (references)

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Modern Usage: Fatty

DomainUsage

Screenplays

You're not a shoplifter, you're just a fat kid. Sorry about that fatty, fat, fatty (Family Guy; writing credit: Dolores Payás)

Lyrics

Fatty girl fatty girl fatty girl (Fatty Girl; performing artist: Ludacris)

I done died and went to heaven you got a fatty girl (Fatty Girl; performing artist: Ludacris)

Movie/TV Titles

Fatty Karate (1965)

Mabel and Fatty Viewing the World's Fair at San Francisco (1915)

Fatty and Minnie He-Haw (1914)

How Fatty Made Good (1913)

Fatty of E-Z Ranch (1912)

Song Titles

Fatty Girl (performing artist: Ludacris)

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

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Commercial Usage: Fatty

DomainTitle

References

  • The 2000 Import and Export Market for Fatty Acids, Acid Oils, and Residues in Europe (reference)

  • The 2002 World Forecasts of Fatty Acids, Acid Oils, and Residues Export Supplies (reference)

  • The 2003 World Forecasts of Fatty Acids, Acid Oils, and Residues Export Supplies (reference)

  • The World Market for Fresh or Chilled Fatty Goose and Duck Livers: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Dha: The Essential Omega-3 Fatty Acid (Woodland Health Ser) (reference)

  • Flaxseed Oil: The Premiere Source of Omega-3 Fatty Acids (reference)

  • The Omega Solution: Unleash the Amazing, Scientifically Based Healing Power of Omega-3 & -6 Fatty Acids (reference)

  • Understanding Fats & Oils: Your Guide to Healing With Essential Fatty Acids (reference)

  • Geometrical and Positional Fatty Acid Isomers (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  • International Society For The Study Of Fatty Acids And Lipids Membership (reference)

  • Prostaglandins Leukotrienes & Essential Fatty Acids (reference)

    (more periodical examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • South Park, Vol. 12: Roger Ebert Should Lay Off the Fatty Foods/Clubhouses (reference)

  • Skinny Tiger and Fatty Dragon (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

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

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Photo Album: Fatty

ThumbnailDescription & CreditThumbnailDescription & Credit

Illustration of a cross-section of the skin with labels indicating epidermis, dermis, sweat gland, fatty tissue, nerve follicle and oil gland. See artwork: RR-15b, WYNTK-22b. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Shown is a mammogram of a fatty breast with an obvious cancer, indicated by an arrow. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Biological laboratory technician Elizabeth Denvir extracts samples for total lipid and fatty acid composition. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

Shading from soybeans leaves decreases the percentage of oleic acid in the seeds in relation to other fatty acids. Photo by Scott Bauer. Credit: USDA ARS News.

Blood plasma, normally clear, turns milky white when levels of cholesterol and other fatty substances become to high. / WHO/NIH p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by Jerry Hecht..

The Kin-der-Kids. Doctor Dopeski tries his newski cureski on Fatty. Credit: Library of Congress.

Fatty -- you told me that not a single bomb would fall on Der Reich!. Credit: Library of Congress.

  

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

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Familiar Quotations: Fatty

AuthorQuotation

Robert Louis Stevenson

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Fatty

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Avoid sweet, fried, or fatty foods. (references)

Recurring intolerance of fatty foods. (references)

But these fatty foods can also clog your arteries. (references)

Business

Efamol is one of the leading specialists in essential fatty acids and accounts for 5 percent of the total U.K. nutritional supplement market. (references)

Propionic acid from aliphatic acid is also imported as well as varieties of fatty amines, such as isopropyl amine, diisopropylamine, and ethylenediamine. (references)

As a result, in May 2000 the EU Commission approved a proposal for a Directive on Food Supplements to improve the safety and quality of vitamins and minerals and harmonize national regulations on their sale. The Commission hopes the Directive will come into force by June 2002, with all products required to be fully compliant by 2004. Although the proposed Directive currently applies only to vitamins and minerals, in the future it may be extended to cover the regulation of other such supplements as amino acids, essential fatty acids, fiber, and plant and herbal supplements. (references)

Human Rights

Gambia

The dismissal of Johnson and Fatty was followed by a massive public outcry that the President had acted unconstitutionally. (references)

Gambia

On September 14, Musa Fatty, a UDP militant of Kerewan Samba Sire village in CRD, was arrested and detained at the Brikama-Ba Police Station for 7 hours and released without charge. (references)

Gambia

In December 2000, the President dismissed Bishop Telewa Johnson, Chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC), and Saga Fatty, commission member, and replaced them with Gabriel Roberts and James Abraham. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Fatty

"Fatty" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 89.26% of the time. "Fatty" is used about 270 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
Adjective (general or positive)89.26%24119,264
Noun (proper)7.78%2176,261
Noun (singular)2.96%8124,375
                    Total100.00%270N/A

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

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Expression: Fatty

Expressions using "fatty": become fatty essential fatty acid essential fatty acids fatty acid fatty acid amine hydrolase Fatty Acid Desaturases Fatty Acids fatty alcohol Fatty Alcohols Fatty clays fatty degeneration fatty degeneration of liver Fatty heart Fatty infiltration Fatty Liver fatty oil Fatty series fatty tissue Fatty tumor free fatty acids monounsaturated fatty acid non esterified fatty acids omega-3 fatty acid polyunsaturated fatty acid saturated fatty acid tall oil fatty acid trans fatty acid unesterified fatty acids unsaturated fatty acid. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "fatty": fatty-acid, Fatty-phil.

Ending with "fatty": free-fatty.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Fatty

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
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

fatty liver

553

fatty sex

19

omega 3 fatty acid

298

fatty tissue

17

fatty

247

fatty cyst

16

essential fatty acid

244

dog fatty tumor

16

fatty acid

160

fatty liver diet

15

fatty tumor

156

cause fatty liver

15

fatty girl

127

essential fatty acid supplement

14

trans fatty acid

119

medium chain fatty acid

14

fatty liver disease

102

fatty scan

13

big eye fatty

62

fatty liver treatment

13

fatty arbuckle

53

fatty alcohol

13

fatty food

42

fatty teen

12

fatty liver syndrome

37

unsaturated fatty acid

12

omega fatty acid

34

fatty porn

12

fatty liver symptom

29

fatty girl lyrics

11

free fatty acid

29

fatty stool

10

fatty fatty

27

long chain fatty acid

10

omega 6 fatty acid

25

fatty human tumor

10

fatty infiltration liver

25

fatty mature

10

fatty tgp

21
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Fatty

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

Afrikaans

  

vetterig (fat, greasy), vet (fat, grease, greasy). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

i yndyrshëm (greasy), i ngjallur (corpulent, obese, plump, pursy, stout), dhjamor (adipose, sebaceous), bufalaq. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مدهن (greasy), ‏دهني (adipose, fleshy, greasy, sebaceous), ‏دسم (add fat, be fat, creamy, oily, rich), ‏دبق (adhesive, clingy, gelation, glutinous, gummy, limy, slimy, sticky, stringy, tacky, tenacious, viscid, viscous), ‏بدين (beefy, chubby, corpulent, fleshy, hefty, obese, overblown, overweight, plump, portly, puffy, replete, rotund, squabby, stout, tubby). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

угоен (fat, fattened, high fed, tallowy), тлъст (adipose, fat, greasy, gross, pinguid, porky, puddingy, rank, rich, tallowy, unctuous), шишко (potbelly, roly poly), охранен (gross, obese, well fed), мастен (adipose, sebaceous), мазен (fat, greasy, mellow, oily, oleaginous, pinguid, rich, sleek, slimy, soapy, treacly, unctuous, yolky). (various references)

   

Catalan

  

gras (fat, greasy). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

胖子 (fat person), 肥腻. (various references)

   

Czech

  

tukový, tuèný (bold, fat, fattening, greasy, plump), tlustý (chunky, fat, fat and flabby, gross, large, overweight, rotund, stout, thick), tlouštík, mastný (greasy, oily, unctuous), cvalík (roly poly). (various references)

   

Danish

  

fed (fat, greasy). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

vettig (fat, greasy), vet (fat, grease, greasy). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

grasa (fat, greasy). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

feitur (fat, greasy). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

چربی مانند, چرب (Fat, Greasy, Oily, Sebaceous, Unctuous). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

E 477 (E477, either alone or mixed with diesters, monoesters of propylene glycol and of fatty acids), E 470 (alone or in mixtures, derived either from edible fats or from distilled edible fatty acids, E470, potassium and calcium salts of edible fatty acids, sodium), mäntyrasvahappo (tall oil fatty acid), kolminkertaisesti tyydyttymätön rasvahappo (tri-unsaturated fatty acids), kolmetyydyttymätön rasvahappo (tri-unsaturated fatty acids), kalium-ja kalsiumsuolat joko yksittäin tai seoksina (alone or in mixtures, derived either from edible fats or from distilled edible fatty acids, E470, potassium and calcium salts of edible fatty acids, sodium), kaksityydyttymätön rasvahappo (di-unsaturated fatty acids), kaksinkertaisesti tyydyttymätön rasvahappo (di-unsaturated fatty acids), monotyydyttymätön rasvahappo (mono-unsaturate, mono-unsaturated fatty acids, monounsaturates), E 498 (E498, partial polyglycerol esters of polycondensated fatty acids of castor oil), polyeeni (poly-unsaturated fatty acids), E 475 (E475, non-polymerized, polyglycol esters of fatty acids), E 472f (E472f, mixed acetic and tartaric acid esters of mono-and di-glycerides of fatty acids), E 472e (E472e, mono-and diacetyltartaric acid esters of mono-and di-glycerides of fatty acids), E 472d (E472d, tartaric acid esters of mono-and di-glycerides of fatty acids), E 472c (citric acid esters of mono-and di-glycerides of fatty acids, E472c), E 472b (E472b, lactic acid esters of mono-and di-glycerides of fatty acids), E 472a (acetic acid esters of mono-and di-glycerides of fatty acids, E472a), E 471 (E471, mono-and diglycerides of fatty acids), haihtuva rasvahappo (volatile fatty acids), rasvahappojen mono-ja diglyseridien viinihappoesterit (E472d, tartaric acid esters of mono-and di-glycerides of fatty acids), välttämätön rasvahappo (E.F.A., essential fatty acid, essential fatty acids), risiiniöljyn polykondensoitujen rasvahappojen osittaiset polyglyseroliesterit (E498, partial polyglycerol esters of polycondensated fatty acids of castor oil), ravintorasvojen tai tislattujen ravintorasvahappojen natrium- (alone or in mixtures, derived either from edible fats or from distilled edible fatty acids, E470, potassium and calcium salts of edible fatty acids, sodium), rasvasydän (fatty degeneration of the heart), rasvainen kala (fatty fishes), rasvahappomodifioitu fenolihartsi (fatty acid modified phenolic resin), rasvahappojen propyleeniglykoliesterit (E477, either alone or mixed with diesters, monoesters of propylene glycol and of fatty acids), monityydyttymätön rasvahappo (poly-unsaturated fatty acids), rasvahappojen mono-ja diglyseridit (E471, mono-and diglycerides of fatty acids), ympäröivä rasvakudos (fatty covering), rasvahappojen mono-ja diglyseridien sitruunahappoesterit (citric acid esters of mono-and di-glycerides of fatty acids, E472c), rasvahappojen mono-ja diglyseridien mono-ja diasetyyliviinihappoesterit (E472e, mono-and diacetyltartaric acid esters of mono-and di-glycerides of fatty acids), rasvahappojen mono-ja diglyseridien maitohappoesterit (E472b, lactic acid esters of mono-and di-glycerides of fatty acids), rasvahappojen mono-ja diglyseridien etikka-ja viinihappoesterien seokset (E472f, mixed acetic and tartaric acid esters of mono-and di-glycerides of fatty acids), rasvahappojen mono-ja diglyseridien etikkahappoesterit (acetic acid esters of mono-and di-glycerides of fatty acids, E472a), rasvahappo (fatty acid), rasva-aine (fat, fatty substance), polytyydyttymätön rasvahappo (poly-unsaturated fatty acids), rasvahappojen polyglyseroliesterit (E475, non-polymerized, polyglycol esters of fatty acids). (various references)

   

French

  

gras (fat, fattish), graisseux. (various references)

   

Frisian

  

fet (fat, grease, greasy). (various references)

   

German

  

fettig (fat, fattily, greasily, greasy, lardy, oily, oleaginous), fett (adipose, bold, fat, grease, greasy, heavily, heavy, lucrative, luxuriant, obese, porkily, porky, rich, shortening). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

παχύσ (adipose, fat, obese, plump, portly), λιπαρόσ (greasy, oily, oleaginous, tallowy, unctuous). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מ"ושן (adipose), שמן (adipose, buxom, corpulent, fat, fertile, fleshy, greasy, oil, robust, stout, thick, unctuous). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

zsíros (blubbery, fat, greasy, gross, oily, pinguid, unctuous), gömböc. (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

bergajih. (various references)

   

Italian

  

grasso (fat, fleshy, grease, greasy, gross, obese, pursy, tubby), untuoso (fat, greasy, lubricious, oily, sleazy, smarmy, smeary, smooth, smudgy, unctious, unctuous). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

脂肪質 , 脂濃い (greasy, oily), 脂っ濃い (greasy, oily), 脂っ"い (greasy, oily), 油っ濃い (greasy, oily). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

しぼうしつ, あぶらっ"い (greasy, oily). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

지방 (Province, Provincial). (various references)

   

Manx

  

sahllagh (adipose, blubbery, fatlike), meeaynlyssagh. (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

vèt (fat, grease, greasy). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

attyfay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

oleoso (greasy, lardy, oily, oleaginous, pinguid, unctuous), gorduroso (adipose, fat, greasy, lardy, oily, oleaginous, pinguid, slick, smeary, tallowy, unctuous), gorducho (fubsy, punchy, roly-poly, squab, squabby). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

gras (beefy, corpulent, fat, greasy, handsomely, oily, porky, puffy, pursy, rich, rotund, sticky, stout, unctuous, well fed). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

жировой (adipose, suintdal). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

mastan (fat, greasy, oleaginous, racy, rich, risque, scabrous, sebaceous, unctuous). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

gordo (corpulent, fat, fatso, fleshy, greasy, plump, porky, portly, rotund, stout, thick, top), grueso (bold, coarse, corpulent, fat, full, greasy, gross, heavy, hulking, thick, thickness), graso (fat, greasy, smeary). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

fetthaltig. (various references)

   

Thai

  

อ้วนมาก (beefy), ซึ่งเต็มไป"้วยไขมัน. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yağlı (adipose, fat, greasy, oiled, oily, oleaginous, sebaceous, smeary, tallowy, unctuous), yağdan oluşan, tombul (chubby, elephantine, fat, fleshy, plump, porky, pudgy, roly poly, rotund, roundabout, sonsy, well-rounded), dobişko (fatso), şişman (corpulent, elephantine, fat, fleshy, in flesh, obese, overweight, portly, stout), şişko (fat, fatso, gross, obese, porky, roly poly). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

товстун (chunk, fatso, pudge), жировий (adipose, suety), жирний (adipose, bacony, beefy, bloated, creamy, fat, greasy, lardy, oily, oleaginous, pinguid, smeary, yolky), повний (absolute, all out, big, broad, chock-a-block, complete, crass, definitive, entire, flush, full, integral, orbicular, out and out, outright, overall, overblown, perfect, plenary, profound, pudgy, pure, rotund, round, total, utter, whole). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

chú bệu (fatso), béo; như mỡ; có nhiều mỡ phát phì có đọng mỡ, anh phệ. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Fatty

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

crassus, pinguis. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Fatty

Derivations

Words ending with "fatty": nonfatty. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Fatty" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Atty, Fakty, fanti, farty, fasty, fatey, fath, Fathy, Fati, fatie, Fatiya, fatt, fatta, fatte, fatto, fattys, faty, featy, fetty, fety, fitry, fitty, fity, flatty, fotty, foty, fraty. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Fatty"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "fatty" (pronounced fa"tē)
3-a" t ēBatty, catty, chatty, natty, Pattie, Patty, ratty, tatty.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Fatty

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-f-t-t-y"

-2 letters: aft, att, fat, fay, tat.

-3 letters: at, ay, fa, ta, ya.

 Words containing the letters "a-f-t-t-y"
 

+2 letters: fattily, fatuity.

 

+3 letters: fatality, flattery, nonfatty, stratify.

 

+4 letters: candytuft, facticity, tactfully.

 

+5 letters: candytufts, factuality, flyswatter, fraternity, frontality, tastefully.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Quotations: Familiar
8. Quotations: Non-fiction
9. Usage Frequency
10. Expressions
11. Expressions: Internet
12. Translations: Modern
13. Translations: Ancient
14. Abbreviations
15. Acronyms
16. Derivations
17. Rhymes
18. Anagrams
19. Bibliography


  

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