Meanings
comparative more superfat · superlative most superfat
- informalExtremely obese.
For superfat and infinifat people, fatphobic culture is even more traumatizing.
2020 August 28, Crystal Kotow, “Big, Beautiful Affect: Exploring the Emotional Environment of BBW Social Events and Its Relationship to Fat Women's Embodiment”, in York University, archived from the original on 28 Dec 2024, page 2245 more examples
In workshops extraordinary scenes would unfold, for example the superfat Apple Hard turned a cartwheel, […]
2016, Charlotte Cooper, Fat Activism: A Radical Social Movement, unnumbered pageBut at bashes, as one of many fat and superfat women in the room, if I want attention—sexual or otherwise—I work harder to get it.
2019, Crystal L. M. Kotow, “Oppressive Liberation: BBW Bashes and the Affective Rollercoaster”, in Carla Rice, Jen Rinaldi, Mary Friedman, editors, Thickening Fat Fat Bodies, Intersectionality, and Social Justice, unnumbered pageAlthough body sizes in #bodypositive posts were more likely to be thin or small fat, posts also included fat and superfat bodies, whereas #fitspiration depicted predominately thin/fit or hypermuscular bodies.
2019 May 10, Rayanne Connie Streeter, “Are All Bodies Good Bodies?: Redefining Femininity Through Discourses of Health, Beauty, and Gender in Body Positivity”, in Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, archived from the original on 12 Jul 2024, page 173Superfat and infinifat women live in bodies that, even in a somewhat fat-positive environment, do not perform fatness in the “right way” either because they are perceived as too large altogether or their shape does not conform to the hourglass or pear ideal of a large and perky bust, small tummy and waist, and thick thighs and bottom.
2020 December 28, Jennifer Jolie, “Body Positivity as Public Pedagogy?: The Case of the #effyourbeautystandards Movement on Instagram”, in Lakehead University, archived from the original on 27 Sep 2021, page 54If you are a midsize (think size 22-24) to superfat (size 26-32), you by all accounts are the type of fat no one wants to be.
2021, Joy Arlene Renee Cox, Fat Girls in Black Bodies: Creating Communities of Our Own, page 15
plural superfats
- informalAn extremely obese person.
Many raised their hands proudly, superfats and scooter riders ready and willing to fight against fascism.
2021, Dawn Haney, Max Airbone, Charis Stiles, “Cultivating new fat liberation movements: growing a movement ecology with Fat Rose”, in Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society2 more examples
Superfats take on more drastic risks in their body positive activism, in return for very little benefit for themselves.
2018, "feelingswithbrandy", quoted in Sarah E. Bolden, "Unsettling Boundaries: (Pre-)Digital Fat Activism, Fatphobia, and Enclave Ambivalence", thesis submitted to Syracuse University, page 127Can I write basic access stuff about what it takes to make sure superfatties can enter a space, in enough event notices or posters that other people start to do it too?
2021, Sarah Doherty, quoted in Sarah Doherty, Shana McDavis-Conway, Adrienne Hill, Elaine Lee, Sydney Lewis, Aaminah Shakur, & Cicely Smith, "A conversation about fat activism among activists in community with Nolose", Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society
present singular third person superfats · participle present superfatting · participle past superfatted · past superfatted
- To use excess fat in soapmaking to consume the alkali and give the soap a more moisturizing effect.
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superfat. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/superfat
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