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big fat

/ˈbɪɡ.fæt/

big fat adjective: complete, utter, total.

Adjective

big fat (not comparable)

  1. (derogatory, idiomatic) Complete, utter, total.
    • He's a big fat idiot.
    • big fat zero big fat nothing big fat lie
  2. (colloquial, idiomatic) 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
  3. 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 formbig-fat
alternative formbig 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/.

Words near big fat in the dictionary

  1. big end
  2. big end of town
  3. big ends
  4. big enough and ugly enough
  5. big eye
  6. big fat
  7. big fat zero
  8. big figure
  9. big figures
  10. big final
  11. big finals

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