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fatty

[fat-ee] / ˈfæt i /
ADJECTIVE
full of adipose tissue
Synonyms
Antonyms
STRONGEST
WEAK


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One study showed that drinking blood orange juice for a month increased the number of gut bacteria that produce short-chain fatty acids.

From Science Daily Aug. 13, 2026

The findings support earlier evidence showing that fatty liver disease and insulin resistance are the main disease processes affecting people in Tübingen's type 2 diabetes risk cluster 5.

From Science Daily Jul. 28, 2026

Sometimes known as "Doctor Death", he became famous for developing a technique called plastination, by which fluids and fatty tissue in corpses are replaced by rubber and polymers.

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

All the same, the fatty acid profile of tallow does overlap with some lipids found in human skin and sebum, including palmitic, stearic and oleic acids.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 27, 2026

The likelihood of any given person being killed in a terrorist attack is far smaller than the likelihood that the same person will clog up his arteries with fatty food and die of heart disease.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt

I’d probably be considered a bad fatty and so would a lot of other fatties I know.

From Time Jan. 5, 2015

And I know it's a morality tale like Shockheaded Peter, but those children were bullies and pyromaniacs, not shy fatties.

From The Guardian Jun. 26, 2013

Pigeons don’t migrate, though, and despite their seasonal weight gain, birds tend not to be among the world’s top fatties.

From Slate Apr. 18, 2012

“No. They’re sports stars, actors, artists. The men with stringy hair are musicians, I think. The really ugly ones are politicians, and someone told me the fatties are mostly comedians.”

From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld

Say, all the fifty-seven varieties was represented,—tall ones, short ones, thin ones,219 plump ones, and plain fatties.

From Torchy by George Brehm

It could be that processing the ground pork patties, which involved grinding the meat and adding the fattier meat to the lean, affected the kinetics of digestion.

From Science Daily Oct. 15, 2025

They often import lean beef from countries such as Australia and New Zealand to blend with fattier U.S. supplies to make hamburgers.

From Reuters Nov. 10, 2023

But it won’t make up for the loss of the Chinook, which are bigger, fattier fish that are in higher demand.

From Seattle Times Mar. 25, 2023

They also pushed for more lean cuts of meat, specifically chops and tenderloins, which, in turn, caused the price of fattier cuts to drop significantly.

From Salon Jan. 31, 2023

"I wonder if you have anything to do with an old friend of my fattier, Archdeacon Bakkus?"

From The Mountebank by William John Locke

The brain is the body's fattiest organ, with fatty compounds called lipids making up 60% of its weight.

From Science Daily Feb. 5, 2024

Many people nowadays shy from eating pork, especially the fattiest parts, but it serves as the base and the literal meat and bones of Hoppin’ John.

From Washington Post Dec. 23, 2022

Cold water produces the biggest, fattiest varieties of zooplankton.

From Washington Times Jan. 15, 2020

A lumbering, chunky beast clad in a sheep-like coat of hair, it is the hairiest and fattiest of pigs.

From The Guardian Dec. 27, 2019

Forage fish feed on zooplankton, and cold water produces the biggest, fattiest versions, said Shannon Atkinson, a physiologist and researcher at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

From Seattle Times Feb. 10, 2017




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