fatty

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: fat=ty
• COUNT in NET: 9 in 8 verses (in OT : 9 in 8 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

fatty, a. 

 Containing fat, or having the qualities of fat; greasy; gross; as, a fatty substance.  [1913 Webster]

Fatty acid (Chem.), any one of the paraffin series of monocarbonic acids, as formic acid, acetic, etc.; -- so called because the higher members, as stearic and palmitic acids, occur in the natural fats, and are themselves fatlike substances. -- Fatty clays. See under Clay. -- Fatty degeneration (Med.), a diseased condition, in which the oil globules, naturally present in certain organs, are so multiplied as gradually to destroy and replace the efficient parts of these organs. -- Fatty heart, Fatty liver, etc. (Med.), a heart, liver, etc., which have been the subjects of fatty degeneration or infiltration. -- Fatty infiltration (Med.), a condition in which there is an excessive accumulation of fat in an organ, without destruction of any essential parts of the latter. -- Fatty tumor (Med.), a tumor consisting of fatty or adipose tissue; lipoma.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

fatty, adj. & n.
--adj. (fattier, fattiest)
1 like fat; oily, greasy.
2 consisting of or containing fat; adipose.
3 marked by abnormal deposition of fat, esp. in fatty degeneration.
--n. (pl. -ies) colloq. a fat person (esp. as a nickname).

Idiom

fatty acid Chem. any of a class of organic compounds consisting of a hydrocarbon chain and a terminal carboxyl group, esp. those occurring as constituents of lipids. fatty oil = fixed oil.

Derivative

fattily adv. fattiness n.

THESAURUS

fatty

adipose, blimp, blubbery, buttery, butyraceous, chrismal, chrismatory, fat, greasy, heavy, heavyweight, hippo, lardaceous, lardy, lump, mucoid, oily, oleaginous, oleic, potbelly, rich, roly-poly, sebaceous, sleek, slick, slippery, smooth, soapy, suety, swagbelly, tallowy, tub, tub of lard, tun, unctuous, unguent, unguentary, unguentous

ROGET THESAURUS

fatty

Unctuousness

N unctuousness, unctuosity, lubricity, ointment, anointment, lubrication, unctuous, oily, oleaginous, adipose, sebaceous, unguinous, fat, fatty, greasy, waxy, butyraceous, soapy, saponaceous, pinguid, lardaceous, slippery.