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deathfat

deathfat adjective: morbidly obese.

Adjective

deathfat (not comparable)

  1. (sarcastic, slang) Morbidly obese.
    • it's made of people you probably see everyday^([sic]) and don't even think are fat, let alone deathfat.2009 October 8, firefey [username], “Re: Obama with Goths”, in alt.gothic (Usenet)
    • To put it more succinctly, I am death fat. I am superduper really-for-real mad fat. I am the kind of fat where doctors are friendly until they get me on a scale, and then after that they get very quiet.2012, Lesley Kinzel, Two Whole Cakes: How to Stop Dieting and Learn to Love Your Body, unnumbered page

Noun

deathfat (plural deathfats)

  1. (sarcastic, slang) A morbidly obese person.
    • Some US fat activists distinguish between ‘inbetweenies,’ who are relatively ‘small’ fat people who enjoy privileges such as ‘passing’ as thin or ‘on their way to being’ thin, and ‘death fats,’ who suffer the worst of the sanctions society places on fat people (McMichael, 2010).2013, Maya Maor, "More: Fat Women in Israel-Genres and Issues in Identity Construction and Resistance to Social Oppression", thesis submitted to Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, page 104
    • The protagonist is aligned to the abject in this room as she wears her dress of rot but she is also aligned to the "death fats" and she exists at a great distance from the slender angels above.2016, Laura Ellen Joyce, “Flesh Home: The Uncanny Female Architecture of Blake Butler's EVER”, in Helen Hester, Caroline Walters, editors, Fat Sex: New Directions in Theory and Activism, unnumbered...

Forms of deathfat

Adjective
alternative formdeath fat
Noun
pluraldeathfats

Origin of deathfat

From death + fat. Coined by Lesley Kinzel as a "counter-euphemism" for morbidly obese in a November 2008 post on the Fatshionista LiveJournal community.

Questions about deathfat

What does deathfat mean?
Deathfat means morbidly obese.
What part of speech is deathfat?
Deathfat can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near deathfat in the dictionary

  1. deathens
  2. deather
  3. Deatherage
  4. Deatherages
  5. deathers
  6. deathfat
  7. deathfats
  8. deathfear
  9. deathfic
  10. deathfics
  11. deathfluencer

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