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Fatter

Fat \Fat\, a. [Compar. Fatter; superl. Fattest.] [AS. f[=ae]tt; akin to D. vet, G. fett, feist, Icel. feitr, Sw. fet, Dan. fed, and perh. to Gr. pi^dax spring, fountain, pidy`ein to gush forth, pi`wn fat, Skr. pi to swell.]

  1. Abounding with fat; as:

    1. Fleshy; characterized by fatness; plump; corpulent; not lean; as, a fat man; a fat ox.

    2. Oily; greasy; unctuous; rich; -- said of food.

  2. Exhibiting the qualities of a fat animal; coarse; heavy; gross; dull; stupid.

    Making our western wits fat and mean.
    --Emerson.

    Make the heart of this people fat.
    --Is. vi. 10.

  3. Fertile; productive; as, a fat soil; a fat pasture.

  4. Rich; producing a large income; desirable; as, a fat benefice; a fat office; a fat job.

    Now parson of Troston, a fat living in Suffolk.
    --Carlyle.

  5. Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate. [Obs.]

    Persons grown fat and wealthy by long impostures.
    --Swift.

  6. (Typog.) Of a character which enables the compositor to make large wages; -- said of matter containing blank, cuts, or many leads, etc.; as, a fat take; a fat page.

    Fat lute, a mixture of pipe clay and oil for filling joints.

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fatter

a. (en-comparativefat)

WordNet
fat

  1. n. a soft greasy substance occurring in organic tissue and consisting of a mixture of lipids (mostly triglycerides); "pizza has too much fat"

  2. a kind of body tissue containing stored fat that serves as a source of energy; adipose tissue also cushions and insulates vital organs; "fatty tissue protected them from the severe cold" [syn: adipose tissue, fatty tissue]

  3. excess bodily weight; "she found fatness disgusting in herself as well as in others" [syn: fatness, blubber, avoirdupois] [ant: leanness]

  4. [also: fatting, fatted, fattest, fatter]

fat

  1. v. make fat or plump; "We will plump out that poor starving child" [syn: fatten, flesh out, fill out, plump, plump out, fatten out, fatten up]

  2. [also: fatting, fatted, fattest, fatter]

fat

  1. adj. having much flesh (especially fat); "he hadn't remembered how fat she was" [ant: thin]

  2. having a relatively large diameter; "a fat rope"

  3. containing or composed of fat; "fatty food"; "fat tissue" [syn: fatty] [ant: nonfat]

  4. lucrative; "a juicy contract"; "a nice fat job" [syn: juicy]

  5. marked by great fruitfulness; "fertile farmland"; "a fat land"; "a productive vineyard"; "rich soil" [syn: fertile, productive, rich]

  6. a chubby body; "the boy had a rounded face and fat cheeks" [syn: rounded]

  7. [also: fatting, fatted, fattest, fatter]

fatter

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Wikipedia
Fatter

Fatter is an Iranian short-range air-to-air missile based on the U.S.-built AIM-9 Sidewinder missile.

Usage examples of "fatter".

He had grown fatter and balder, and his pudgy face seemed sexually indeterminate and permanently worried.

Now much fatter in the pocket than he had been this afternoon, he decided to follow his nose and see where it led him.

The housemaid was younger, but fatter than the cook, so either could have had the soprano.

The Laymil habitats were remarkably similar to Tranquillity and the Edenist habitats, biologically engineered polyp cylinders, although at fifty kilometres long and twenty in diameter they were fatter than the human designs.

As the winter slowly passed, Nancy thrived, grew hair, teeth, grew fatter than ever.

One of the men, the fatter one, reached in his pocket and took out a roll of nickels that was wrapped in paper the way a bank packs theirs.