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Definition: Fatty |
FattyAdjective1. Containing or composed of fat; "fatty food"; "fat tissue". Noun1. 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) |
| 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. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| FAAH | English | Fatty acid amine hydrolase | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: FattySynonyms: fat (adj), fat person (n), fatso (n), roly-poly (n). (additional references) |
| Antonyms: nonfat (adj), thin person (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: Fatty |
| English words defined with "fatty": Fatty infiltration, Fatty tumor ♦ monounsaturated fatty acid ♦ polyunsaturated fatty acid ♦ saturated fatty acid ♦ trans fatty acid ♦ unsaturated fatty acid. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "fatty": essential fatty acid, essential fatty acids ♦ Fatty Acid Desaturases, Fatty Acids, Monounsaturated, Fatty Acids, Nonesterified, Fatty Acids, Omega-3, Fatty Acids, Unsaturated, Fatty Acids, Volatile, Fatty Liver, Alcoholic ♦ mono-unsaturated fatty acids ♦ Omega-3 Fatty Acids, Omega-6 Fatty Acids ♦ tall oil fatty acid. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
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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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. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Robert Louis Stevenson | In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 89.26% | 241 | 19,264 |
| Noun (proper) | 7.78% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Noun (singular) | 2.96% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Total | 100.00% | 270 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency 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. | |||
| 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. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | crassus, pinguis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "fatty": nonfatty. (additional references) | |
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"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "fatty" (pronounced fa"tē) |
| 3 | -a" t ē | Batty, catty, chatty, natty, Pattie, Patty, ratty, tatty. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
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. | |
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