fatosphere
fatosphere noun: the world or sphere of fat people.
Noun
fatosphere (plural not attested)
- The world or sphere of fat people.
- For larger individuals—what the Fatosphere jokingly refers to as “deathfat” as a play on the term “morbidly obese”— leaving their homes opens them to criticism and ridicule.2012, Lonie McMichael, Ph.D., Talking Fat: Health vs. Persuasion in the War on Our Bodies, unnumbered page
- While the above obese woman is caught up in her own fatosphere there's her counterpart, the impossibly tall, thin woman with legs and thighs from here to heaven who is caught up in her own thinosphere[…]2010, Robert James Smith, Carrol Sue Perrino, Staying Beautiful is a BITCH!
Origin of fatosphere
fat + -o- + -sphere; compare biosphere, blogosphere, etc.
Questions about fatosphere
- What does fatosphere mean?
- Fatosphere means the world or sphere of fat people.
- What part of speech is fatosphere?
- Fatosphere is a noun.
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