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famine resistant

famine resistant adjective: overweight, fat.

Adjective

famine resistant (comparative more famine resistant, superlative most famine resistant)

  1. (euphemistic, humorous) Overweight, fat.
    • Marge Simpson: Con: you're endangering your health.
      Homer Simpson: Pro: I'm drought and famine resistant.1995, November 5, Dan Greaney, "King-Size Homer", episode 7-7 of The Simpsons, 00:12:25-00:12:30
    • And they STILL refuse to come out with the Cartman shirts in sizes for famine resistant sysadmins like me. XXL, please!1998 January 24, Bill Bradford, “Re: ! South Park Stickers are here!”, in austin.forsale (Usenet)

Forms of famine resistant

comparativemore famine resistant
superlativemost famine resistant

Questions about famine resistant

What does famine resistant mean?
Famine resistant means overweight, fat.
What part of speech is famine resistant?
Famine resistant is an adjective.

Words near famine resistant in the dictionary

  1. famine breads
  2. famine fever
  3. famine food
  4. famine foods
  5. famine or feast
  6. famine resistant
  7. famine weed
  8. faminee
  9. faminees
  10. famineless
  11. faminelike

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