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fattish, a.|ˈfætɪʃ|
[f. fat a. + -ish.]
a. Somewhat fat; fairly supplied with fat.
†b. Somewhat greasy or unctuous. Obs.
a.c1369Chaucer Dethe Blaunche 954 She had..armes ever lith, Fattish, fleshy, nat great therewith. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. iv. 161 For fatting, the best are those [poultry] that have the skinnes of theyr neckes thicke and fattysh. 1668Culpepper & Cole Barthol. Anat. iii. ix. 149 In the Lobe it is so mingled with Flesh, that it becomes..fattish, fleshy and spungy. 1815J. W. Croker in Croker Papers (1884) I. iii. 65 Talleyrand..is fattish for a Frenchman. 1864Carlyle Fredk. Gt. (1865) IV. ii. iii. 58 The jolly Ambassador..Camas, a fattish man.
b.1589Fleming Virg. Georg. iii. 51 Pitch of trees on Ida hill, and fattish wax with grease. 1610W. Folkingham Art of Survey i. x. 32 Clay mixed with a viscous and fattish Earth. 1671J. Webster Metallogr. xiii. 216 Thin plates of white silver in a fattish stone. 1726Leoni tr. Alberti's Archit. I. iii. 49 a, The fattish sort [of mortar] is more tenacious than the lean.
Hence ˈfattishness, the quality of being fattish.
1662H. Stubbe Ind. Nectar iii. 28 The body of the water..did shine with a visible Fattishnesse. |