fat
US: /ˈfæt/
UK: /fˈæt/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
fat /fæt/- tính từ
- được vỗ béo (để giết thịt)
- béo, mập, béo phì, mũm mĩm
- béo, đậm nét (chữ in)
- béo, có dầu, có mỡ
- béo (than)
- dính, nhờn (chất đất...)
- màu mỡ, tốt
- fat lands: đất màu mỡ
- béo bở, có lợi, có lãi
- a fat job: việc làm béo bở
- đầy áp
- a fat purse: túi tiền đầy ắp, túi tiền dầy cộm
- chậm chạp, trì độn
- to cut up fat
- để lại nhiều tiền
- a fat chance
- (từ lóng) sự đen đủi, sự không may chút nào
- he's a fat chance: hắn ta đen đủi quá, hắn ta chẳng may mắn chút nào
- a fat lot
- (từ lóng) nhiều gớm ((thường), (mỉa mai)), rất ít, cóc khô
- a fat lot of good it did you: tưởng bở lắm đấy à
- a fat lot you know about it: cậu thì biết cóc khô gì về chuyện ấy
- a fat lot I care: tớ cóc cần
Advanced English dictionary
adjective, noun+ adjective (fatter, fattest)
1 (of a person's or an animal's body) having too much flesh on it and weighing too much: a big fat man / woman + You'll get fat if you eat so much chocolate. + He grew fatter and fatter. + fat flabby legs
2 thick or wide: a fat volume on American history
3 [only before noun] (informal) large in quantity; worth a lot of money: a fat sum / profit + He gave me a nice fat cheque.
fatness noun [U]: Fatness tends to run in families.
Idioms: (a) fat chance (of sth / doing sth) (spoken) used for saying that you do not believe sth is likely to happen: 'They might let us in without tickets.' 'Fat chance of that!'
a fat lot of good, use, etc. (spoken) not at all good or useful: Paul can't drive so he was a fat lot of use when I broke my arm.
+ noun
1 [U] a white or yellow substance in the bodies of animals and humans, stored under the skin: excess body fat + This ham has too much fat on it.
2 [C, U] a solid or liquid substance from animals or plants, treated so that it becomes pure for use in cooking: Cook the meat in shallow fat.
3 [C, U] animal and vegetable fats, when you are thinking of them as part of what a person eats: You should cut down on fats and carbohydrates. + foods which are low in fat + fat free yoghurts + reduced fat margarines
Idioms see CHEW v., LIVE
VOCABULARY BUILDING
saying that someone is fat
Fat is the most common and direct word, but it is not polite to say to someone that they are fat: Does this dress make me look fat? +
Overweight is a more neutral word: I'm a bit overweight. It can also mean too fat, especially so that you are not fit.
Large or heavy is less offensive than fat: She's a rather large woman. Big describes someone who is tall as well as fat:
Her sister is a big girl, isn't she?
Plump means slightly fat in an attractive way, often used to describe women.
Chubby is used mainly to describe babies and children who are fat in a pleasant, healthy-looking way: the baby's chubby cheeks.
Tubby (informal) is used in a friendly way to describe people who are short and round, especially around the stomach.
Stocky is a neutral word and means fairly short, broad and strong.
Stout is often used to describe older people who have a round and heavy appearance: a short stout man with a bald head.
Flabby describes flesh that is fat and loose and it can sound offensive: exercises to firm up flabby thighs.
Obese is used by doctors to describe people who are so fat that they are unhealthy. It is also used in a general way to mean 'really fat'.
Note that although people talk a lot about their own size or weight, it is generally not considered polite to refer to a person's large size or their weight when you talk to them.
- note at THIN
WORD FAMILY
fat adj.
fatty adj.
fatten v.
fattening adj.
Thesaurus dictionary
adj.
1 obese, stout, overweight, heavy, plump, rotund, corpulent, portly, well-fed, chubby, podgy or chiefly US pudgy, roly-poly, tubby, bulky, fleshy, paunchy, pot-bellied, overfed, flabby, elephantine, Colloq broad in the beam, beamy, beefy, Slang US five-by-five:
A fat man squeezed in beside me.
2 oily, oleaginous, unctuous, greasy, fatty, pinguid, sebaceous, adipose:
His complexion is bad because he eats too much fat food.
3 rich, wealthy, prosperous, affluent, well-to-do, well off, Colloq well-heeled, loaded:
They grew fat on their profits from the black market.
4 profitable, lucrative, fruitful, remunerative, Slang cushy:
He has a fat job as a purchasing agent for the government.
n.
5 obesity, corpulence, stoutness, overweight, heaviness, plumpness, rotundity, portliness, chubbiness, podginess or Chiefly US pudginess, tubbiness, fleshiness, paunchiness, flabbiness:
He leans a little towards fat because of lack of exercise.
6 riches, wealth, prosperity, fertility, yield, abundance, plenty, plenteousness:
He's living off the fat of the land.
Collocation
VERBS
be, feel, look | become, get, grow | make sb
Try to cut out the foods that are making you fat.
ADV.
enormously, hugely, immensely, really, very | quite, rather | grossly, monstrously
PHRASES
big/great fat
sitting next to a big fat woman a big fat envelope stuffed with banknotes
Concise dictionary
fatted|fatting|fatter|fattest|fatsfætnoun
+a soft greasy substance occurring in organic tissue and consisting of a mixture of lipids (mostly triglycerides)
+a kind of body tissue containing stored fat that serves as a source of energy; it also cushions and insulates vital organs
+excess bodily weight
verb
+make fat or plump
adj.
+having much flesh (especially fat)
+having a relatively large diameter
+containing or composed of fat
+lucrative
+marked by great fruitfulness
+a chubby body
