fatty bom bom
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Singapore/ˈfɛti(˦)ˌbɔm(˨)ˌbɔm(˨˦)/
fatty bom bom noun: a fat or overweight person.
Noun
fatty bom bom (plural fatty bom boms)
- A fat or overweight person.
- He skips 500 times a day and runs three kilometers a day to chase away his fatty bom bom blues.1990 June 2, Chua Chong Jin, The Straits Times, page 28
- “My family and friends were quite upset for me when they read it, but I don’t take it seriously,” said the 79kg heavyweight, who told us there were worse disparages like a “Go Home, Fatty Bom Bom” message posted on the Talentime forum.2001 November 30, Jeanmarie Tan, The New Paper, page 42
Examples of fatty bom bom in a sentence
- I remember, too, a ditty: "Fatty, fatty bom bom, curi curi jagung; mata-mata tangkap, masuk dalam lokap" (the fat one steals the corn, gets arrested by police and is thrown into the lock-up.2006 January 10, Kathirasen, New Straits Times:
- I particularly liked: Fatty bom bom, meaning a fat bottomed person.2007 November 7, Rosie Milne, “Trouble and strife: Singlish”, in The Telegraph, retrieved 28 Mar 2016:
- “Fatty bom bom” refers to an Ah Pui; “bom bom”, as the sound a heavy, wobbling body makes, dramatizes fatness.2015 November 11, Gwee Li Sui, “SinGweesh on Wednesday: Kiam Chye Char Loti”, in The Middle Ground, archived from the original on 09 Aug...
Forms of fatty bom bom
| plural | fatty bom boms |
|---|---|
| alternative form | fatty fatty bom bom |
Origin of fatty bom bom
Derived from slang fatty (“a fat person”) + bom bom ("a sound imitative of the noise a fat person makes when walking"). Compare West Indian/Caribbean slang fatty bum-bum ‘a very fat person, esp. a woman with large buttocks’ (Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage (1996), Green’s Dictionary of Slang), and Australian slang fatty boom-bah or fatty-boom-bah-sticks ‘a taunting nickname for a fat person’ (The Essential Lingo Dictionary of Australian Words and Phrases, 2015).
Questions about fatty bom bom
- What does fatty bom bom mean?
- Fatty bom bom means a fat or overweight person.
- How do you use fatty bom bom in a sentence?
- I remember, too, a ditty: "Fatty, fatty bom bom, curi curi jagung; mata-mata tangkap, masuk dalam lokap" (the fat one steals the corn, gets arrested by police and is thrown into the lock-up.
- What part of speech is fatty bom bom?
- Fatty bom bom is a noun.
- How do you pronounce fatty bom bom?
- Fatty bom bom is pronounced /ˈfɛti(˦)ˌbɔm(˨)ˌbɔm(˨˦)/ (Singapore).
- What is the plural of fatty bom bom?
- The plural of fatty bom bom is fatty bom boms.
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