What is the Old English word for fat?

Old English fætt "fat, fatted, plump, obese," originally a contracted past participle of fættian "to cram, stuff," from Proto-Germanic *faitida "fatted," from verb *faitjan "to fatten," from *faita- "plump, fat" (source also of Old Frisian fatt, Old Norse feitr, Dutch vet, German feist "fat"), from PIE *poid- "to ...

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How do you say fat in Old English?

From Middle English fat, from Old English fǣtt (“fatted, fat”), from Proto-West Germanic *faitid (“fatted”), originally the past participle of the verb *faitijan (“to make fat”), from *fait (“fat”).

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What is a fancy synonym for fat?

fat
  • overweight.
  • heavy.
  • obese.
  • plump.
  • portly.
  • rotund.
  • stout.
  • tubby.

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What is the English word of fat?

fatter; fattest. Synonyms of fat. : notable for having an unusual amount of fat: : plump.

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What is the root word for fat?

Origin of adipo-

<Latin adip- (see adipose) + -o-

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What is the Greek word for fat?

λίπος • (lípos) n (genitive λίπους); third declension. animal fat, lard, tallow.

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What is the biblical meaning of the word fat?

Easton's Bible Dictionary - Fat

(Heb. heleb) denotes the richest part of the animal, or the fattest of the flock, in the account of Abel's sacrifice ( Genesis 4:4 ). It sometimes denotes the best of any production ( Genesis 45:18 ; Numbers 18:12 ; Psalms 81:16 ; 147:47 ).

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What is a polite way to say fat?

If someone is extremely fat in a way that is often thought to be bad for their health, you could use the word obese. Obese is used in medical contexts. More and more children are becoming obese. Plump is a polite way of saying that someone is fat.

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What is the British slang for fat people?

Chunky. First we have chunky, a word widely used in Britain to describe a fat person. It is used widely to describe quite varied levels of weight, and could even be used to describe a very bulky, muscular athlete.

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What's the scientific word for fat?

Fat is a triglyceride (a type of lipid) that is usually solid at room temperature.

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What is the Old English word for weight?

weight (n.)

Old English gewiht "weighing, weight, downward force of a body, heaviness," from Proto-Germanic *wihti- (source also of Old Norse vætt, Danish vegt, Old Frisian wicht, Middle Dutch gewicht, German Gewicht), from *weg- (see weigh).

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What is belly in Old English?

The word belly is a more casual way to say "stomach" or "abdomen," just as your navel is informally called a "belly button." A less common way to use the word is as a verb meaning "to swell," which is actually the oldest meaning of belly, from the Old English belig, "bag," and a Germanic root meaning "to swell like a ...

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What are Old English words for body?

Etymology. From Middle English bodi, bodiȝ, from Old English bodiġ (“body, trunk, chest, torso, height, stature”), from Proto-West Germanic *bodag (“body, trunk”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- (“to be awake, observe”).

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What is a funny term for a fat person?

Slang words for "fat person" are: fupa, lard, chunker, chode body, and jelly belly.

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What is the slang word for a fat stomach?

paunch Add to list Share. A paunch is a fat stomach.

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What is British slang for 5 pounds?

Cockney rhyming slang for a fiver is a 'Lady Godiva', and the group the Commodores are best-known for their song 'Three Times A Lady'.

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How do you call someone fat without being rude?

50 ways to say 'you're fat'
  1. Gosh, you're looking ... well. ...
  2. Gosh, you're looking . . . prosperous. ...
  3. Horizontally challenged.
  4. Enthusiastic eater. Politically incorrect.
  5. Reverse anorexic. ...
  6. Failed bulimic. ...
  7. Big-boned (it's the genes)
  8. Robust.

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What's another name for fat back?

Through the years certain synonyms for fatback have arisen, among them salt pork, fat meat, fat pork, (dry) salt meat, salt bacon, seasoning meat, side meat, sowbelly, white bacon, and middling meat.

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What is the Hebrew word fat?

We will take a look at three Hebrew words translated as “fat”: Shaman, which was connected with the word oil (shemen) Khelev, which was primarily associated with fat offerings in the Tabernacle/Temple setting.

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Where does the Bible say not to eat fat?

Leviticus 3:17 tells us that there's a certain kind of animal fat—helev, in the Hebrew, which is usually translated as suet—that one may never eat: “It is an eternal rule for all of your generations, in all your dwelling places: Do not eat any helev or blood.” The language of the verse makes it seem pretty important: ...

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Who was the fat guy in the Bible?

Biblical narrative

Eglon reigned over the Israelites for 18 years. One day, Ehud, who was left handed, came presenting a customary tribute and tricked Eglon and stabbed him with his sword, but when Ehud attempted to draw the sword back out, the obese king's excess fat prevented its retrieval.

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How do you say love in Old English?

The word 'love' was once '*leubh', a word used by the Proto-Indo-Europeans approximately five thousand years ago to describe care and desire. When 'love' was incorporated into Old English as 'lufu', it had turned into both a noun to describe, 'deep affection' and its offspring verb, 'to be very fond of'.

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What is a Snollygoster person?

'Snollygoster', a word for "an unprincipled but shrewd person," might derive from the word 'snallygaster', which is used to describe a mythical creature from rural Maryland that is half reptile and half bird.

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What are Old English words for no?

From Middle English no, na, from Old English nā, nō (“no, not, not ever, never”), from Proto-Germanic *nai (“never”), *ne (“not”), from Proto-Indo-European *ne, *nē, *nēy (negative particle), equivalent to Old English ne (“not”) + ā, ō (“ever, always”).

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What is a womans belly called?

The abdomen (commonly called the belly) is the body space between the thorax (chest) and pelvis. The diaphragm forms the upper surface of the abdomen.

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