Meanings
plural fatsos · plural fatsoes
- colloquialderogatorySomeone who is overweight.
'Yo next, Fatso,' said one of them as the bus came up out of the rain and stopped with a sigh from the great vacuum brakes.
1954, Ian Fleming, “Nigger Heaven”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 441 more example
He went to the upstairs lookout and peered down upon the political bod, whom he recognised as the fatso who had given a thin, starving speech one lunch-time to the new High School students[.]
1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 113
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Englishfats
- Latinō
- Old Frenchoh
- Middle Englisho
- EnglishO
- Englishoh
- Englishfatso
Translations
Bulgarian дебелак, шишко
- дебелак (debelak)an overweight person
- шишко (šiško)an overweight person
Chinese Cantonese 死肥仔
- 死肥仔 (sei² fei¹ zai²)an overweight person
Chinese Mandarin 死胖子, 死肥仔
- 死胖子 (sǐ pàngzi)an overweight person
- 死肥仔 (sǐ féizǎi)an overweight person
Czech tlusťoch
- tlusťochan overweight person
Danish fedtklump, fedtbjerg
- fedtklumpan overweight person
- fedtbjergan overweight person
Dutch vetzak, dikzak
- vetzakan overweight person
- dikzakan overweight person
Esperanto grasulo
- grasuloan overweight person
Finnish läski, lihapulla
- läskian overweight person
- lihapullaan overweight person
French gros lard, patapouf
- gros lardan overweight person
- patapoufan overweight person
German Rollmops, Fettwanst
- Rollmopsan overweight person
- Fettwanstan overweight person
- Fettsackan overweight person
Greek χοντρομπαλάς, χοντρομπαλού
- χοντρομπαλάς (chontrompalás)an overweight person
- χοντρομπαλού (chontrompaloú)an overweight person
Hebrew שמן
- שמן (shamén)an overweight person
Hungarian kövér ember, dagi
- kövér emberan overweight person
- dagian overweight person
- hájpacnian overweight person
Irish feolamán
- feolamánan overweight person
Italian ciccione
- ciccionean overweight person
Japanese デブ, 太っちょ
- デブ (debu)an overweight person
- 太っちょ (futotcho)an overweight person
Lithuanian storulis
- storulisan overweight person
Māori pukunati
- pukunatian overweight person
Polish grubas, tłuścioch
- grubasan overweight person
- tłuściochan overweight person
- spaślakan overweight person
- baleronan overweight person
- baryłaan overweight person
Portuguese gordão
- gordãoan overweight person
Russian толстя́к, жирдя́й
- толстя́к (tolstják)an overweight person
- жирдя́й (žirdjáj)an overweight person
- жиртре́ст (žirtrést)an overweight person
- толсту́ха (tolstúxa)an overweight person
- толсту́шка (tolstúška)an overweight person
Spanish gordo, gordinflón
- gordoan overweight person
- gordinflónan overweight person
- gordiflónan overweight person
- gordinflasan overweight person
- guatónan overweight person
- gorditoan overweight person
- guatoncitoan overweight person
- bambánan overweight person
Swedish fetto, tjockis
- fettoan overweight person
- tjockisan overweight person
- fetknoppan overweight person
- rultaan overweight person
- fläskbergan overweight person
Turkish şişko
- şişkoan overweight person
Welsh bol mawr, bol uwd
- bol mawran overweight person
- bol uwdan overweight person
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Cite this entry
fatso. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fatso
“fatso.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fatso. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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