fat
/ˈfæt/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.85 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
Example Sentences
- "The fat man had problems going through the door."
- "The fattest pig should yield the most meat."
- "1932, New Orleans (La.) Board of Health, Vox Sanitatis While Hennessey is pouring the milk, the fat guy with the big pot-belly, will come over and write a lot of junk in his little book."
- "[…] Ruth‐ellen Stark and Elizabeth Ryan are about ten times fatter, but even they can't compare to Bruce…”"
- "And there he stood, as uncouth as ever, naked as the day he was born, but fatter and chinnier and even more self-satisfied […]"
- "Because, really, who would like the fat girl? Sebastian said I was crazy for thinking that."
Etymology
From Middle English fat, from Old English fǣtt (“fatted, fat”), from Proto-West Germanic *faitid (“fatted”), originally the past participle of the verb *faitijan (“to make fat”), from *fait (“fat”).