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fatsome

fatsome adjective: characteristically fat or fatty.

Adjective

fatsome (comparative more fatsome, superlative most fatsome)

  1. Characteristically fat or fatty.
    • “'You better not be telling a whopper!” says the fatsome one, slitting his eyes, “You know what happens when people tell us whoppers.”2013, Anna Kemp, Fantastic Frankie and the Brain-Drain Machine
    • My first thought was that it would make a fine accompaniment to my evening meal, for your puffin is a fatsome bird and fries nicely in its own juices.2016, Will Mabbitt, The Unlikely Adventures of Mabel Jones

Forms of fatsome

comparativemore fatsome
superlativemost fatsome

Origin of fatsome

From fat + -some.

Questions about fatsome

What does fatsome mean?
Fatsome means characteristically fat or fatty.
What part of speech is fatsome?
Fatsome is an adjective.

Words near fatsome in the dictionary

  1. fatshits
  2. fatsia
  3. fatsias
  4. fatso
  5. fatsoes
  6. fatsome
  7. fatsos
  8. fatsploitation
  9. fatspo
  10. fatstock
  11. fatstocks

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