fat

modif.

1. Having excess flesh

   plump, heavy, overweight, obese, corpulent, portly, stout, fleshy, chubby, potbellied, paunchy, beefy, brawny, solid, plumpish, pleasantly plump, rotund, burly, bulky, unwieldly, husky, stocky, heavyset, thickset, chunky, tubby, pudgy, roly-poly, round, dumpy, flabby, puffy, weighty, hefty, meaty, on the heavy side, well-fed, in need of dieting, pursy, abdominous, adipose, porcine, big, massive, swollen, bloated, hypertrophied, ponderous, lumpish, gross, blowzy, broad in the beam*; see also large 1.

   Antonyms thin*, lean*, skinny. *

2. Having a large cross section

   thick, broad, big; see broad 1, deep 2.

3. Productive

   rich, fruitful, profitable; see fertile 1.

4. Oily

   greasy, fatty, oleaginous; see fatty, oily 1.

chew the fat*

fat

n.

1. blubber, grease, adipose tissue, hydrogenated vegetable fat, tallow, suet, lard, shortening, oil, lipid, flab*.

   Edible fats include: butter, butterfat, oleomargarine, margarine, lard, cottonseed oil, olive oil, corn oil, vegetable oil, canola oil, fish oil, coconut oil, palm oil, sesame oil, sunflower oil, soybean oil, safflower oil, cod-liver oil, peanut oil.

2. Chemical terms used of edible fats include: saturated, unsaturated, monounsaturated, polyunsaturated, hydrogenated, partially hydrogenated.