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fat·ty1

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–adjective

1.	consisting of, containing, or resembling fat: fatty tissue.

2.	Pathology. characterized by overproduction or excessive accumulation of fat.

[Origin: 1350–1400; ME; see fat, -y¹

]

—Related forms

fat·ti·ly, adverb

fat·ti·ness, noun

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–noun, plural -ties. Informal: Often Disparaging and Offensive.

a person who is overweight or obese.

[Origin: 1790–1800; fat + -y²

]

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adj. fat·ti·er, fat·ti·est

Containing or composed of fat: fatty food; fatty deposits.
Characteristic of fat; greasy.
Derived from or chemically related to fat.

n. pl. fat·ties Offensive
A fat person.

fat'ti·ly adv., fat'ti·ness n.

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fatty
adjective
1.	containing or composed of fat; "fatty food"; "fat tissue" [ant: fat-free]
noun
1.	a rotund individual [syn: fatso] [ant: scrag]

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ˈfatty adjective

containing, or like, fat
Example: This meat is very fatty.

Arabic:	دُهْنـي
Chinese (Simplified):	油腻的，多脂肪的
Chinese (Traditional):	油膩的，多脂肪的
Czech:	tučný, tlustý
Danish:	fed; fedtholdig
Dutch:	vet
Estonian:	rasvane
Finnish:	rasvainen
French:	gras
German:	fettig
Greek:	λιπαρός
Hungarian:	zsíros
Icelandic:	fitugur
Indonesian:	berlemak
Italian:	grasso

Japanese:	脂肪の多い
Korean:	기름기가 많은
Latvian:	tauks; taukains
Lithuanian:	riebus
Norwegian:	fet; fettholdig
Polish:	tłusty, tłuszczowy
Portuguese (Brazil):	gorduroso
Portuguese (Portugal):	gordo
Romanian:	gras
Russian:	жирный
Slovak:	tučný, mastný
Slovenian:	masten
Spanish:	graso
Swedish:	fet, fetthaltig
Turkish:	yağlı

See also: fat-head, fatten, fat, "fatty" in any language

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Fatty

Fat"ty\, a. Containing fat, or having the qualities of fat; greasy; gross; as, a fatty substance.

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.

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