landwhale

plural landwhales · alternative land whale

1. derogatoryslangAn obese person.

   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

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   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

   The Captain guy was talking now. Sounded official. Trim build. Looked in good shape for someone in his fifties. From what he could scope out. Interesting. Not all Americans were landwhales by thirty.

   2014, Brock Barrack, Touch Wood, iUniverse, published 2010, →ISBN

   Synonyms: All are derogatory unless otherwise labeled, butterball, chod, chodder, chubbs, chubster, chunker, chunky monkey

2. slangAn excessively large motor vehicle.

   That jerk did such a bad job parking his landwhale that it's taking up four parking spaces!

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   "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. slangA fattened pig, harvested for its oil.

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   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 United States."