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Definition of "fattish" [fat•tish]

  • Somewhat fat. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "fattish" in a sentence
  • "He was not the most alluring of men: small 5ft 5in, fattish, domineering and opinionated."
  • "A fattish woman approaching middle age was complaining in a monotonously high-pitched voice, halfway between a harangue and a wail, about her three daughters who were aged twelve, thirteen and fourteen respectively."
  • "And Don Quixote gazed down at the two men in the bed, at the first man who was fattish and long-lashed and who, though his arms were flabby and weak (and not firm and well-muscled like those of his wiry, brooding companion), nevertheless acted with the lingua of his body in a protective, cuddling way, or so it seemed to Don Quixote."
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