Meanings
present singular third person fat-shames · participle present fat-shaming · participle past fat-shamed · past fat-shamed · alternative fat shame · alternative fatshame
- transitiveTo criticise or deride (someone) because of their overweightness or obesity.
Using the same format as posters intended to fat-shame children, but changing the message to fat positivity, queers fat.
2016, Cat Pausé, Jackie Wykes, Samantha Murray, Queering Fat Embodiment, Routledge, page 781 more example
Today, Ansari professes to regret the joke. “Uh, probably no reason to fat-shame my little cousin on a global scale,” he says in Right Now.
2019 July 11, Megan Garber, quoting Aziz Ansari, “Aziz Ansari and the Physics of Moving Forward”, in The Atlantic
Origin
Translations
German fatshamen
- fatshamenmaking fun of a person's weight
Malay sindir gemuk
- sindir gemukmaking fun of a person's weight
Spanish humillar por ser gordo, ser gordofóbico contra
- humillar por ser gordomaking fun of a person's weight
- ser gordofóbico contramaking fun of a person's weight
- mortificar la gordura de (por)making fun of a person's weight
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fat-shame. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fat-shame
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