big fat
/ˈbɪɡ.fæt/
big fat adjective: complete, utter, total.
Adjective
big fat (not comparable)
- Complete, utter, total.
- He's a big fat idiot.
- big fat zero big fat nothing big fat lie
- Huge, colossal.
- I know a society who will pay you a big fat sum if you'll sign over them eyes for post-mortem laboratory work.1918, Fannie Hurst, "A Petal on the Current" (collected in Humoresque, 1919), in Cosmopolitan, vol. 65, p. 42
- [Porkypine:] Why, it's a big fat honor... They'll speech at you an' feed you chicken foot stew an'...
[Pogo:] But I don't like to listen to them speeches an' I don't care for chicken foots.
[Porkypine:] If yo' public is gone give you honor, son, they isn't gone let yo' personal taste stand in the...1952, Walt Kelly, Pogo, 25 August 1952 strip
- Synonyms:
- jumbo, king-sized, mammoth
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see big, fat.
- The suspect was a big fat man with a shabby appearance.
Synonyms of big fat
Forms of big fat
| alternative form | big-fat |
|---|---|
| alternative form | big phat |
Questions about big fat
- What does big fat mean?
- Big fat means complete, utter, total.
- What part of speech is big fat?
- Big fat is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce big fat?
- Big fat is pronounced /ˈbɪɡ.fæt/.
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