Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Grossly; greasily.
  • In a lumbering manner, as of a fat person.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb Grossly; greasily.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb In a fat way.

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word fatly.

Examples

  • My parents always grew tomatoes in the garden and the only way I remember eating them when I was little was in BLTs or fatly sliced with a bit of salt and pepper.

    So Long Boise....Thanks for all the Tomatoes Sarah Lenz 2008

  • My parents always grew tomatoes in the garden and the only way I remember eating them when I was little was in BLTs or fatly sliced with a bit of salt and pepper.

    Archive 2008-08-01 Sarah Lenz 2008

  • Instantly he was falling through clear air, unobscured by clouds, only the moon was out on this side of the world, and glowing fatly in the evening sky.

    Blood Ninja II Nick Lake 2010

  • His attempt at graceful escape was foiled by the sudden appearance of Rupert, fatly resplendent in ruffled shirt and gold-laced coat, who popped out of the narrow gate like a cork from a bottle.

    Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

  • Instantly he was falling through clear air, unobscured by clouds, only the moon was out on this side of the world, and glowing fatly in the evening sky.

    Blood Ninja II Nick Lake 2010

  • Instantly he was falling through clear air, unobscured by clouds, only the moon was out on this side of the world, and glowing fatly in the evening sky.

    Blood Ninja II Nick Lake 2010

  • I could picture it, the fuselage sitting fatly—singed at the edges, perhaps, burned?

    The Legacy Kirsten Tranter 2010

  • "Our colonial taste runs to more extrav'gant colours, but since your ac-cent marks you as English, why, you best look it," says he, chuckling fatly as though he'd never put a point to my throat in his life.

    THE NUMBERS 2010

  • If the president of a bank breaks its rules by promoting his girl friend and fatly raising her pay, we must not conclude that he did anything wrong.

    James Heffernan: Whatever Would Wolfie Have Done Without the Passive Voice? 2008

  • The Street already is staffed pretty fatly, with more than 211,000 working in the deal-making parts of investment banks in 2007, lumped together under "institutional securities."

    Deal Makers: 2008

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.