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fat shame

fat shame is the alternative spelling of fat-shame.

Meaning of fat-shame

Verb

fat-shame (third-person singular simple present fat-shames, present participle fat-shaming, simple past and past participle fat-shamed)

  1. (transitive) To criticise or deride (someone) because of their overweightness or obesity.
    • Using the same format as posters intended to fat-shame children, but changing the message to fat positivity, queers fat.2016, Cat Pausé, Jackie Wykes, Samantha Murray, Queering Fat Embodiment, Routledge, page 78

Forms of fat shame

third-person singular presentfat shames
present participlefat shaming
past participlefat shamed
pastfat shamed

Questions about fat shame

What is fat shame the alternative spelling of?
Fat shame is the alternative spelling of fat-shame.

Words near fat shame in the dictionary

  1. fat quarters
  2. fat rascal
  3. fat rascals
  4. fat sandwich
  5. fat sandwiches
  6. fat shame
  7. fat shamed
  8. fat shamer
  9. fat shamers
  10. fat shames
  11. fat shaming

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fat shame (page history and authors); fat-shame (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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