Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being fat, plump, or full-fed; fullness of flesh; corpulency.
- noun Unctuousness; sliminess: applied to earth; hence, richness; fertility; fruitfulness.
- noun Grossness; sensuality.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being fat, plump, or full-fed; corpulency; fullness of flesh.
- noun Hence; Richness; fertility; fruitfulness.
- noun That which makes fat or fertile.
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- noun The state of being
fat
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- noun excess bodily weight
Etymologies
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Examples
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Their souls shall delight themselves in fatness, that is, in the riches and most grateful delights.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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"Our finding that increased body fatness is associated with the earlier onset of puberty provides additional evidence that growing rates of obesity among children in this country may be contributing to the trend of early maturation in girls," said Dr. Joyce Lee, the lead author.
Study: Childhood Obesity Triggers Early Puberty | Impact Lab 2007
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How many vauntful attributes are there not in fatness, and how well saith the poet,
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"All of the discourse about fatness is about pathologizing the individual," she said in an interview, also likening it to the eugenics movement.
Archive 2004-05-01 2004
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"All of the discourse about fatness is about pathologizing the individual," she said in an interview, also likening it to the eugenics movement.
Medpundit 2004
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Canada spends far too much time obsessing over "fatness" - that is, on trying to slim down the obese (24 per cent of Canadians) and the merely overweight (37 per cent).
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Eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
Eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. | clusterflock 2009
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… Hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
quote | clusterflock 2009
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Eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. | clusterflock etc.
Eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. | clusterflock 2009
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Of course there are people for whom compulsive overeating is the source of their fatness, which is as serious a psychological issue as compulsive undereating, despite our cultural failure to regard it thus.
More Fat Princess 2008
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