big fat
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈbɪɡ.fæt/
big fat (not comparable)
- (idiomatic, pejorative) Complete, utter, total.
- He's a big fat idiot.
- (idiomatic, colloquial) Huge, colossal.
- It's a big fat honor.
- 1918, Fannie Hurst, "A Petal on the Current" (collected in Humoresque, 1919), in Cosmopolitan (magazine), vol. 65, p. 42 ↗:
- I know a society who will pay you a big fat sum if you'll sign over them eyes for post-mortem laboratory work.
- 1952, Walt Kelly, Pogo (comic strip), 25 August 1952 strip:
- [Porkypine:] Why, it's a big fat honor... They'll speech at you an' feed you chicken foot stew an'...
[Pogo:] But I don't like to listen to them speeches an' I don't care for chicken foots.
[Porkypine:] If yo' public is gone give you honor, son, they isn't gone let yo' personal taste stand in the way.
- [Porkypine:] Why, it's a big fat honor... They'll speech at you an' feed you chicken foot stew an'...
- 2019, Barney Ronay, Liverpool’s waves of red fury and recklessness end in joyous bedlam (in The Guardian, 8 May 2019)
- As Jürgen Klopp took Sadio Mané in his arms and spun him like a beloved ballroom partner, there was a moment of sing-song communion with the Kop. They love these big fat emotional notes here.
- (huge) jumbo, king-sized, mammoth
- See also Thesaurus:gigantic
- French: bon gros, énorme
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