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Fattest

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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fattest

a. (en-superlativefat)

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]

fattest

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Usage examples of "fattest".

I knew I ran up against the biggest and the fattest bunch of grapes that I ever lay eyes on.

The fattest woman in the world put her head coquettishly to one side, raised one leg in front of her and lifted her skirt above the knee.

They were the finest, the fattest, the greenest peas you ever did see.

Anansi, he waits down there all the day but when night falls he climbs out of the grave, and he goes into the pea patch, where he picks him the fattest, sweetest, ripest peas.

Clustered amid the thorns were the fattest, darkest, most lush-looking blackberries he had ever seen.

He fetched out of the drawer the longest, fattest candle that Jack had ever seen.

But most persons are unwilling to make personal sacrifices for the afflicted, and it was evident that many of the fattest dogs in town had been forbidden to play with me--a fact which pained my young sensibilities, and at one time came near driving me to become a pirate.

At the far end, under a huge oil painting of a complex outdoor orgy, sat the fattest person Hugh had ever seen: a vast-bosomed, heavily painted woman in a silk gown like a purple tent.

But the fattest goose comes soonest to the spit, and I will draw their fortunes to their last date.

Four seconds later, with the cloud at its fattest, the immense bulk of the pitted and glassless Liberty Building leaned over, slowly, ever so slowly, lowering itself with the mighty reluctance of a stricken mammoth.

Botticelli for me and the fattest whore in Florence, with plenty left over for her elephant of a mother to act as chaperone!

He was about the fattest man that Vickers had ever seen, an emotional baby with a mind like a vise who had long ago abandoned all ideas except power and gluttony.

Since the thickest pin of a lock binds first when a turning force is applied, it was important to pick the pins in order of fattest to thinnest.