superfat

English

Etymology

super- +‎ fat

Adjective

superfat (comparative more superfat, superlative most superfat)

1. (informal) Extremely obese.
   • 2016, Charlotte Cooper, Fat Activism: A Radical Social Movement, unnumbered page:

     In workshops extraordinary scenes would unfold, for example the superfat Apple Hard turned a cartwheel, […]

   • 2019, Crystal L. M. Kotow, “Oppressive Liberation: BBW Bashes and the Affective Rollercoaster”, in Carla Rice, Jen Rinaldi, Mary Friedman, editors, Thickening Fat Fat Bodies, Intersectionality, and Social Justice, unnumbered page:

     But at bashes, as one of many fat and superfat women in the room, if I want attention—sexual or otherwise—I work harder to get it.

   • 2021, Joy Arlene Renee Cox, Fat Girls in Black Bodies: Creating Communities of Our Own‎^[1], page 15:

     If you are a midsize (think size 22-24) to superfat (size 26-32), you by all accounts are the type of fat no one wants to be.

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

Noun

superfat (plural superfats)

1. (informal) An extremely obese person.
   • 2018, "feelingswithbrandy", quoted in Sarah E. Bolden, "Unsettling Boundaries: (Pre-)Digital Fat Activism, Fatphobia, and Enclave Ambivalence", thesis submitted to Syracuse University, page 127:

     Superfats take on more drastic risks in their body positive activism, in return for very little benefit for themselves.

   • 2021, Sarah Doherty, quoted in Sarah Doherty, Shana McDavis-Conway, Adrienne Hill, Elaine Lee, Sydney Lewis, Aaminah Shakur, & Cicely Smith, "A conversation about fat activism among activists in community with Nolose", Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society:

     Can I write basic access stuff about what it takes to make sure superfatties can enter a space, in enough event notices or posters that other people start to do it too?

   • 2021, Dawn Haney, Max Airbone, Charis Stiles, “Cultivating new fat liberation movements: growing a movement ecology with Fat Rose”, in Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society:

     Many raised their hands proudly, superfats and scooter riders ready and willing to fight against fascism.

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

Verb

superfat (third-person singular simple present superfats, present participle superfatting, simple past and past participle superfatted)

1. To use excess fat in soapmaking to consume the alkali and give the soap a more moisturizing effect.