fatty bom bom
/ˈfɛti(˦)ˌbɔm(˨)ˌbɔm(˨˦)/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.97 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "He skips 500 times a day and runs three kilometers a day to chase away his fatty bom bom blues."
- "“My family and friends were quite upset for me when they read it, but I don’t take it seriously,” said the 79kg heavyweight, who told us there were worse disparages like a “Go Home, Fatty Bom Bom” message posted on the Talentime forum."
- "I remember, too, a ditty: "Fatty, fatty bom bom, curi curi jagung; mata-mata tangkap, masuk dalam lokap" (the fat one steals the corn, gets arrested by police and is thrown into the lock-up."
- "I particularly liked: Fatty bom bom, meaning a fat bottomed person."
- "Soon, there were all sorts of derivatives - fatty, fatso, fatty bom bom, Trim and Fit club (arguably not the children's fault) - so much so that by the time someone reaches adulthood, the term had become a source of deep emotional pain."
- "“Fatty bom bom” refers to an Ah Pui; “bom bom”, as the sound a heavy, wobbling body makes, dramatizes fatness."
Etymology
Derived from slang fatty (“a fat person”) + bom bom ("a sound imitative of the noise a fat person makes when walking"). Compare West Indian/Caribbean slang fatty bum-bum ‘a very fat person, esp. a woman with large buttocks’ (Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage (1996), Green’s Dictionary of Slang), and Australian slang fatty boom-bah or fatty-boom-bah-sticks ‘a taunting nickname for a fat person’ (The Essential Lingo Dictionary of Australian Words and Phrases, 2015).
Usage
Inflected Forms
fatty bom boms (plural)
fatty fatty bom bom (alternative)