## Meanings
1. Having too much flesh on the body; not thin.
2. The soft, oily substance in the bodies of animals and people, and in some foods.
3. Thick or large in size.

## Examples
- The cat had grown fat from too many treats.
- This kind of pizza has too much fat.
- He pulled a fat wallet out of his pocket.

## Synonyms
- blubber
- bountiful
- chubby
- chunky
- corpulent
- flab
- grease
- lard
- lardy
- obese
- overweight
- plump

## Antonyms
- skinny
- slender
- slim
- thin

## Derived Forms
- antifat
- backfat
- big-fat
- bodyfat
- butterfat
- deathfat
- deep-fat-fry
- defat
- dryfat
- fat-arse
- fat-ass
- fat-assed

## Related Forms
- lipic
- lipid
- obese
- overweight
- paunch

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: fat
- Root: fæt
- Root: *fatą
- Root: *pod-

## Etymology
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.

## AI Etymology
Fat comes 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. In current use, the main senses are “Having too much flesh on the body; not thin” and “The soft, oily substance in the bodies of animals and people, and in some foods”.

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