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fattish

[ fat-ish ]

adjective

  1. somewhat fat.


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Other Words From

  • fattish·ness noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of fattish1

Middle English word dating back to 1325–75; fat, -ish 1

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Example Sentences

Strangely moved, Soames looked at the Cook's pleasant fattish face, all little puckers from staring at fires.

A bent, fattish figure in a shawl came toward him through the haggard, his wife's mother.

A fattish child made her way up the walk, toeing out unnecessarily, and let herself in by the back door without knocking.

If you board a submarine off duty you generally see a perspective of fore-shortened fattish men laid all along.

She was talking to the young man who was not her husband: a fair, pale, fattish young fellow in pince-nez and dark clothes.

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