Definition of "fat"

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.

1932, New Orleans (La.) Board of Health, Vox Sanitatis

Because, really, who would like the fat girl? Sebastian said I was crazy for thinking that.

2014, Isabel Quintero, Gabi, a Girl in Pieces, Cinco Puntos Press, page 46

So this was my future home, I thought! […] Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.

1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company

Make the heart of this people fat, […]

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Isaiah 6:10, column 1

making our western wits fat & mean

1855 July 21, Ralph Waldo Emerson, letter to Walter Whitman

now parson of Troston, a fat living in Suffolk

1882, Thomas Carlyle, Reminiscences

persons grown fat and wealthy by a long and successful imposture

1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, 6th edition, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] J[ames] Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1727

Hitting a thin shot from a fairway bunker is more productive than hitting a fat shot.

1992, DeDe Owens, Linda K. Bunker, Advanced Golf: Steps to Success, page 81

He is what the theatre calls a “fat” role — a man suddenly confronted by a terrible duty. He is called upon to revenge the murder of his father and to right a wrong against the state.

1965, Edmund Fuller, A Pageant of the Theatre, page 131

He seeks a fat role in a hit show, lest he diminish his market value.

1997, Harold Clurman, On Directing, page 12

Joe Hirakawa, formerly of the Seattle Civic Repertory Theatre, was a waterfront peddler in “Madame Butterfly” and had a fat role in “Beauty Parlor,” an indie.

2012, Greg Robinson, Larry S. Tajiri, Pacific Citizens, page 9

I'd've liked to hang around but the guys were in a fat hurry.

1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure

This isn't a place to talk about “hitting the decks” and making “fat beats”—you're not selling to an industry peer.

2011, Joe Shambro, How to Start a Home-based DJ Business, page 19

In fact, the fats that are most stable and least likely to oxidize with heat are the highly saturated fats we've long been told to avoid—lard, tallow, butter, and coconut and palm oils.

2018, Kristin Lawless, Formerly known as food, page 32

Prefer military, bodybuilders, jocks. No smokers or fats please.

1996, Roger Stone, "Local Swing Fever", highlighted by National Enquirer in September 1996 and Daily Mail in January 2019

Before riding over to the fats we'll have a look about us.

1934, Henry G. Lamond, An Aviary On The Plains, page 7

“On this one hole, Donald hits his second and fats it into the water,” Faxon remembers. “But he quickly says to me, ‘Hey, throw me another ball; they weren’t looking.’ So I do. But he fats that one into the water, too. So he drives up and drops where he should’ve dropped the first time and hits it on the green.”

2019 April 2, Rick Reilly, How and why President Trump cheats at golf — even when he’s playing against Tiger Woods‎, archived from the original on 2022-03-29

And the floores ſhall bee full of wheate, and the fats ſhall ouerflowe with wine and oyle.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Joel 2:24, column 1

In 1431 New College purchases brewing vessels, under the names of a mash fat, for 6s. 10d., a wort fat for 2s., a 'Gilleding' tub for 2s. 6d., and two tunning barrels at 8d. each, a leaden boiler for 24s., another for 12s., and a great copper beer pot for 13s. 4d.

1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 429