Definition of "fattening" []

• That which causes weight gain; usually high calorie food with relatively little nutritive value. (adjective)
• Present participle of fatten. (verb)

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• "It is what we call fattening up the frog to feed the snake."
• "It's because I don't want to spend four -- or eight -- years fattening up Rush Limbaugh's portfolio, or just plain fattening up Ann Coulter."
• "Then the milk was all made up into butter and cheese at home, while not all that which is not consumed in fattening calves for the city markets is, in most localities, taken to the railroad stations to be shipped on the milk train, or to the nearest of the cheese and butter factories which are distributed through the township."