fatso

English

Etymology

From fats +‎ -o.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfæ.t͡soʊ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfæt.soʊ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

fatso (plural fatsos or fatsoes)

1. (colloquial, derogatory) Someone who is overweight.
   • 1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 113:

     He went to the upstairs lookout and peered down upon the political bod, whom he recognised as the fatso who had given a thin, starving speech one lunch-time to the new High School students[.]

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:fat person

Translations

an overweight person

• Armenian: չաղո (čʻaġo), խոզ (hy) (xoz), բեգեմ (begem), խրյուշ (xryuš)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 死肥仔 (sei² fei¹ zai²)

  Mandarin: 死胖子 (sǐ pàngzi), 死肥仔 (sǐ féizǎi)

• Czech: tlusťoch (cs) m
• Danish: fedtklump c, fedtbjerg n
• Dutch: vetzak (nl) m, dikzak (nl) m
• Esperanto: grasulo
• Finnish: läski (fi), lihapulla (fi)
• French: gros lard (fr) m
• Galician: morcón (gl) m, molondro (gl) m, maroufeiro (gl) m, bazuncho (gl) m, zampán (gl) m, tarambullo (gl) m
• German: Rollmops (de) m, Fettwanst (de) m, Fettsack (de) m
• Greek: χοντρομπαλάς (el) m (chontrompalás), χοντρομπαλού f (chontrompaloú)
• Gujarati: જાડિયો m (jāḍiyo)
• Hebrew: שמן (he) m (shamén)
• Hungarian: kövér ember, dagi (hu), hájpacni
• Irish: feolamán m
• Italian: ciccione (it) m
• Japanese: デブ (ja) (debu), 太っちょ (ふとっちょ, futoccho)
• Lithuanian: storulis m
• Macedonian: дебелко m (debelko), дебелка f (debelka)
• Maori: pukunati
• Polish: grubas (pl) m, tłuścioch (pl) m, spaślak (pl) m, baleron (pl) m, baryła f
• Portuguese: gordão m
• Russian: толстя́к (ru) m (tolstják), жирдя́й (ru) m (žirdjáj), жиртре́ст (ru) m (žirtrést) (uncommon), (female) толсту́ха (ru) f (tolstúxa), толсту́шка (ru) f (tolstúška)
• Spanish: gordinflón (es) m, guatón (es) m
• Swedish: fetto (sv) n, tjockis (sv) c, fetknopp (sv) c, rulta (sv), fläskberg (sv) n
• Turkish: şişko (tr)
• Welsh: bol mawr m, bol uwd m

Anagrams

• FOSTA, softa