英:['fætlɪs]
美:['fætlɪs]
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adjective
notable for having an unusual amount of fat:
plump
a cute, fat little baby
having excessive body fat
… a woman of medium height, a little plump but not fat …—Mary McCarthy
of a meat animal fattened for market
of food oily, greasy
a fat, rich cheese
well filled out : thick, big
a fat book
full in tone and quality : rich
a gorgeous fat bass voice—Irish Digest
well stocked
a fat larder
prosperous, wealthy
grew fat on the war—Time
being substantial and impressive
a fat bank account
richly rewarding or profitable a fat contract
a fat part in a movie
practically nonexistent
a fat chance
productive, fertile
a fat year for crops
informal stupid, foolish
" … if he had had any sense in his fat head, he would have done it long ago, dash him!"—P. G. Wodehouse
being swollen
got a fat lip from the fight
of a baseball pitch easy to hit
verb
transitive verb
to make fat : fatten
noun
animal tissue consisting chiefly of cells distended with greasy or oily matter
oily or greasy matter making up the bulk of adipose tissue and often abundant in seeds
any of various compounds of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen that are glycerides of fatty acids, are the chief constituents of plant and animal fat, are a major class of energy-rich food, and are soluble in organic solvents but not in water
a solid or semisolid fat as distinguished from an oil
the best or richest part
obesity
something in excess : superfluity
trim the fat from the news operation—Ray Olson
Adjective, Verb, and Noun Middle English, from Old English fǣtt, past participle of fǣtan to cram; akin to Old High German feizit fat
The first known use of fat was before the 12th century
fattenverb
to make or become fat
fat1 of 3adjective
plump entry 5, fleshy
oily sense 1, greasy
thick entry 1 sense 1
a fat book
well stocked : abundant
profitable
accepted a fat contract
productive sense 1, fertile
being swollen
got a fat lip in the fight
fat2 of 3verb
to make fat : fatten
fat3 of 3noun
animal tissue consisting chiefly of cells containing much greasy or oily matter
any of numerous compounds of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen that make up most of plant and animal fat, are a major class of energy-rich food, and can be dissolved by ether but not by water
a solid or semisolid fat (as lard) as distinguished from an oil
the best or richest part
the fat of the land
an amount beyond what is usual or needed : excess
1 I can't believe I've let myself get so fat.
2 This diet requires you to eat only the wan and fatless white meat, but you have to first boil it to culinary death.
3 Over the past few decades, Jonathan Meyers endured several cycles of gaining, shedding, then regaining weight after attempting Keto, high protein, low fat, and calorie-restrictive diets.
4 The potato chip crust kept the chicken super tender, perhaps from the extra fat blanketing the mostly fatless meat, like a really confusing take on a porchetta.
5 fats like butter and olive oil
6 Trim the fat from the meat before you cook it.
7 a truck with fat tires
8 The dog is getting fat because you feed him too much.
9 But he’s so much older than them, like some animated character: AdultBoyMan, with a high schooler’s fatless body and a kind adult’s face.
10 Nuts contain a lot of fat.
11 people with excess body fat
12 I like chicken, but not the wan and fatless white meat, unless it is slathered with gravy.
13 By way of improvement, a brilliant peroration was added, supposed to be addressed through me to the mothers of America, urging them to bring up the rising generation fatless.
14 a diet low in fats
15 a diet and exercise program to help you gain muscle and lose fat
16 trim the fat off the budget
17 One, led by PhD student Blakeley Payne, focuses on fat people’s experiences online.
18 a fat book of poems
19 Hedonism, the wider culture insisted, had brought this plague down upon gay people; austerity, in the form of fatless macrobiotic diets and then-nascent American vegetarianism, could prevent it.
20 Happily for Lent, this is a fatless loaf, if you exclude the egg yolks – while Duff and Prendergast both use butter, none of the non-yeasted versions does.