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fatting

fatting is the present participle and gerund of fat.

Meaning of fat

Verb

fat (third-person singular simple present fats, present participle fatting, simple past and past participle fatted)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To make fat; to fatten.
    • kill the fatted calf
  2. (archaic, intransitive) To become fat; to fatten.
  3. (transitive) To hit (a golf ball) with a fat shot.
    • “On this one hole, Donald hits his second and fats it into the water,” Faxon remembers. “But he quickly says to me, ‘Hey, throw me another ball; they weren’t looking.’ So I do. But he fats that one into the water, too. So he drives up and drops where he should’ve dropped the first time and hits it...2019 April 2, Rick Reilly, How and why President Trump cheats at golf — even when he’s playing against Tiger Woods, archived from the original on 29 Mar 2022

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Forms of fatting

pluralfattings

Words formed from fatting

Phrases with fatting

Questions about fatting

What is fatting the present participle and gerund of?
Fatting is the present participle and gerund of fat.

Words near fatting in the dictionary

  1. fattier
  2. fatties
  3. fattiest
  4. fattily
  5. fattiness
  6. fatting
  7. fatting up
  8. fattish
  9. fattishness
  10. fattism
  11. fattist

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