fattyadj.n.

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Fatte or Fattye, adeps.

1589 A. Fleming tr. Virgil Eclogs vi. 16 in A. Fleming tr. Virgil Bucoliks A shepheard it behooues To feed his fattie sheepe.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 216 The leaues be whiter and fattier.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. i. sig. A6 As when old father Nilus gins to swell..His fattie waues doe fertile slime outwell.

1855 R. C. Singleton tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. I. 113 For fatty lands These fit, for lighter those.

1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια vi. v. 353 The fatty veine called Adiposa.

1804 J. Abernethy Surg. Observ. 30 I have known several fatty tumours growing at the same time.

1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool. ii. i. 41 The Fatty or Adipose Tissue consists of vesicles..filled with an oily fluid.

1884 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Fatty ligament, a synonym of the Mucous ligament of the knee-joint. Fatty membrane, the subcutaneous areolar tissue which contains the fat. A Fatty tumour is a mass of soft yellow fat, generally enclosed in a..thin fibrous capsule.

1877 F. T. Roberts Handbk. Med. (ed. 3) II. 51 Fatty Degeneration is sometimes a part of a general tendency to fatty changes.

1881 A. Flint Treat. Princ. Med. (ed. 5) 55 In fatty infiltration of a cell, the protoplasm is displaced by the fat.

1884 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Fatty degeneration, that condition in which a part or the whole of any tissue or organ is replaced by fat.

1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 16 Aug. 14/1 He..dies within a few years from inertia or fatty heart.

1829 J. Togno & E. Durand tr. H. Milne-Edwards & P. Vavasseur Man. Materia Medica x. 397 Catapucia Oil,..a fatty oil, extracted from the seeds of the Euphorbia lathyris, Lin.

1863–72 H. Watts Dict. Chem. I. 616 Fatty acids or Soap acids.

1868 R. D. Hoblyn Dict. Terms Med. & Collateral Sci. (ed. 9) Fatty Acids, a group of acids extracted from fats and fixed oils in the process of saponification. The fatty acid series is a term synonymous with the acetic series of acids.

1872 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 25 682 A method of forming the nitro-compounds of the fatty series.

1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 119 Its fatty acids form insoluble salts with the lime.

1897 I. Remsen Org. Chem. 147 The acids with which it [sc. glycerin] is in combination are mostly members of the fatty acid series.

1926 H. G. Rule tr. J. Schmidt Text-bk. Org. Chem. i. 69 The numerous compounds classified under this title [sc. aliphatic or fatty compounds] may be regarded as derived from the hydrocarbon methane... Since the common animal and vegetable fats similarly fall under this heading, the whole series is frequently known as the aliphatic or fatty series.

1864 J. A. Grant Walk across Afr. 31 ‘Doomba’ or fatty-tailed variety.

1797 B. Wynne Diary 3 Mar. (1937) II. x. 170 His wife is a poor miserable thing, the daughter a good looking fatty.

1822 R. Richardson Trav. Mediterranean II. xix. 266 Well-built fatties, with double mouldings in the neck and chin.

1891 J. S. Farmer Slang II. 378/1 Fatty, a jocular epithet for a fat man; a comic endearment for a fat woman.

1919 Holiday Ann. 1920 120/1 Fatty Wynn was busy... Arthur Augustus..wondered whether Fatty, engrossed by the cake, would think of looking out on the platform.

1960 V. Nabokov Invitation to Beheading x. 101 Cincinnatus..followed every step of the nimble fatty.

1971 Petticoat 17 July 32/1 Success stories connected with slimming are few and far between, so any fatties who might be reading this—take note of this tale!