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landwhale

landwhale noun: an obese person.

Noun

landwhale (plural landwhales)

  1. (derogatory, slang) An obese person.
    • There is nothing else to hit on here except fat girls so the landwhales just assume that since they have no problem getting dates that it's all right to be fat.1985, John J. Burke IV, "One male's opinion" [letter to the editor], The Pointer (University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point), Volume 29, Number 13, 21 November 1985, page 28
    • That's less lazy people getting Social Security, or taking jobs that us normal-sized people need. Eat yourself to death, landwhales!2006 October, “Hearsay”, in Skinnie Magazine, page 24
    Synonyms:
    All are derogatory unless otherwise labeled, butterball, chod, chodder, chubbs, chubster, chunker, chunky monkey, elephant, fat
  2. (slang) An excessively large motor vehicle.
    • That jerk did such a bad job parking his landwhale that it's taking up four parking spaces!
    • "It's getting close to Timmy's bedtime, so we won't stay long. I suppose you heard us arrive. We'll be staying outside tonight in that land whale we drove up in."2012, Linda Townsley, The Dream Singer, WestBow Press, published 2012, →ISBN
  3. (slang) A fattened pig, harvested for its oil.
    • A. Richard Crabb, The Hybrid-Corn Makers: Prophets of Plenty (1947), p. 10: "This [c. 1850] was the era of the 'land whale,' when fat hogs, fed two years or more on a concentrated corn diet, supplied the oil that largely replaced the whale oil used earlier so extensively in the seaboard area of the...

Synonyms of landwhale

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Forms of landwhale

plurallandwhales
alternative formland whale

Origin of landwhale

From land + whale.

Questions about landwhale

What does landwhale mean?
Landwhale means an obese person.
What part of speech is landwhale?
Landwhale is a noun.
What is the plural of landwhale?
The plural of landwhale is landwhales.

Words near landwhale in the dictionary

  1. LandWarNet
  2. landwash
  3. landwashes
  4. Landwehr
  5. Landwehrs
  6. landwhale
  7. landwhales
  8. landwind
  9. landwinds
  10. landworker
  11. landworkers

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