fatsome

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adjective

Characteristically fat or fatty.

Scrabble 12

Meanings

adjectivefatsome (comparative more fatsome, superlative most fatsome)

comparative more fatsome · superlative most fatsome

  1. Characteristically fat or fatty.

    “'You better not be telling a whopper!” says the fatsome one, slitting his eyes, “You know what happens when people tell us whoppers.”

    2013, Anna Kemp, Fantastic Frankie and the Brain-Drain Machine
    1 more example

    My first thought was that it would make a fine accompaniment to my evening meal, for your puffin is a fatsome bird and fries nicely in its own juices.

    2016, Will Mabbitt, The Unlikely Adventures of Mabel Jones

Origin

  1. Englishfat
  2. Proto-Indo-European*sem-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*somHós
  4. Proto-Germanic*samaz
  5. Englishfatsome

From fat + -some.

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APA

fatsome. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fatsome

MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “fatsome,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fatsome.

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