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Fat Thursday

Fat Thursday noun: the Thursday before the start of Lent.

Noun

Fat Thursday (plural Fat Thursdays)

  1. The Thursday before the start of Lent.
    • Rome celebrated its Giovedi Grasso, the Fat Thursday before Lent, with public mummery and carousing and did not listen to the prophets of political gloom.1959 February 6, “Rome Celebrates Pre-Lenten Fete”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Forms of Fat Thursday

pluralFat Thursdays

Questions about Fat Thursday

What does Fat Thursday mean?
Fat Thursday means the Thursday before the start of Lent.
What part of speech is Fat Thursday?
Fat Thursday is a noun.
What is the plural of Fat Thursday?
The plural of Fat Thursday is Fat Thursdays.

Words near Fat Thursday in the dictionary

  1. fat suits
  2. fat tail
  3. fat tails
  4. fat tax
  5. fat taxes
  6. Fat Thursday
  7. Fat Thursdays
  8. Fat Tuesday
  9. fat up
  10. fat upper pubic area
  11. fat upper pussy area

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