fat

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Having too much flesh on the body; not thin.

   The cat had grown fat from too many treats.

2. 2
   noun

   The soft, oily substance in the bodies of animals and people, and in some foods.

   This kind of pizza has too much fat.

3. 3
   adj

   Thick or large in size.

   He pulled a fat wallet out of his pocket.

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Simplified etymology

Fat is an Old English word and has described people since Anglo-Saxon times. As a noun it also once meant “the richest or choicest part” of something, a sense preserved in the biblical expression the fat of the land.

From Middle English fat, from Old English fæt (“vat, vessel, jar, cup, casket, division”), from Proto-Germanic *fatą (“vessel”), from Proto-Indo-European *pod- (“vessel”). Cognate with Dutch vat (“barrel, vessel”), German Fass (“barrel, drum”), Swedish fat (“barrel, dish, cask”). See vat.

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