landwhale

See also: land whale

English

Alternative forms

• land whale

Etymology

land +‎ whale

Pronunciation

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Noun

landwhale (plural landwhales)

1. (slang, derogatory, kenning) An obese person.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:fat person

   • 1985, John J. Burke IV, "One male's opinion" [letter to the editor], The Pointer (University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point), Volume 29, Number 13, 21 November 1985, page 28:

     There is nothing else to hit on here except fat girls so the landwhales just assume that since they have no problem getting dates that it's all right to be fat.

   • 2006, "Hearsay", Skinnie Magazine, October 2006, page 24:

     That's less lazy people getting Social Security, or taking jobs that us normal-sized people need. Eat yourself to death, landwhales!

   • 2014, Brock Barrack, Touch Wood, iUniverse (2010), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

     The Captain guy was talking now. Sounded official. Trim build. Looked in good shape for someone in his fifties. From what he could scope out. Interesting. Not all Americans were landwhales by thirty.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:landwhale.