fat as a house

adjective

Very fat; plump; overweight.

Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

adjectivefat as a house (not comparable)
  1. not comparablesimileVery fat; plump; overweight.

    2011 Danny Baker winning cancer fight Daily Express, 11 May 2011. Accessed 4 May 2019. Danny, who has three children, Bonnie, 27, Sonny, 24 and Mancie, 12 with wife Wendy, says the weight loss is no silver lining: “In a couple of years I hope to be bulging at the seams again, fat as a house.

    1 more example

    She was fat — fat as a house. My daddy told her not to eat one more thing, and she still got fat.

    2009, Lynne Mitchell, To Touch the Whale, page 74

Translations

Polish gruby jak beczka
  • gruby jak beczkaTranslations
Cite this entry
APA

fat as a house. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fat%20as%20a%20house

MLA

“fat as a house.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fat%20as%20a%20house. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “fat as a house,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fat%20as%20a%20house.

Source: fat as a house on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.