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1888. Referee, 15 April, 3, 1. I don't want to rob Miss Claremont of her fat, but her part must be cut down.
Adj. (general).—1. Rich; abundant; profitable.
1785. Grose, Dict. Vulg. Tongue, s.v. Fat cull, a rich fellow.
1888. Puck's Library, May, p. 25. This would make the labour so much lighter, that every time a girl went to set a pound of candy she would consider that she had a good fat take.
2. (Australian).—Good. [An old English usage.]
d. 1626. Middleton [works, II., 422]. O, for a bowl of fat canary, Rich Aristippus, sparkling sherry! Some nectar else from Juno's dairy, O, these draughts would make us merry.
1890. Speaker, 22 Feb., p. 212, col. 2. As 'good' in English is fat in Australian, the story is probably true about the missionary—not a story of Dr. Lumholtz's. After many years of work in the field, this good missionary was taken apart by some anxious but meagre inquirers in his flock. Sir, said they, must a man be very fat to enter the Kingdom of Heaven? He was able to reassure them.
Cut it fat.—See Cut.
Cut up fat.—See Cut up.
Bit of fat, subs. phr. popular).—See subs., senses 2 and 3; also adj. in both senses: and (venery) connection with a stout woman.
All the fat's in the fire, phr. (common).—Said of failures and of the results of sudden and unexpected revelation; disappointments: i.e., it is all 'over' or 'up' with a person or thing. A late equivalent is, 'And then the band played.'
Fat as a hen's forehead, adv. phr. (old).—Meagre; skinny (q.v.).
Fat- (also Barge-, Broad- and
Heavy-) Arsed, adj. phr.
(common).—Broad in the breech;
and, by implication, in Richard
Baxter's Shove to Heavy Arsed
Christians, thick-witted and slow
to move.
Fat- (also Thick-) Chops, subs.
(common).—A contumelious
epithet.
Fat-Cock, subs. (common).—An
epithet rather jocular than derisive
for a stout and elderly man;
also (venery) a double-sucker
(q.v.).
Fater, Faytor, or Fator, subs.
(old).—A fortune-teller. Lexicon
Balatronicum [1811]. In Spencer
= a doer; in Bailey = an idle
fellow; a vagabond. [From Fr.
faiteur.]
Fat-Fancier, (or -Monger,) subs.
(venery).—An amateur of stout
women.
Fat-flab, subs. (Winchester School).—A
cut off the fat part of a breast
of mutton.—See Cat's Head.
Fat- (or Full-) Guts, subs.
(common).—An opprobrious epithet
for a fat man or woman.
Fat-head, subs. (common).—A
dolt.
Fat-headed, -skulled, -thoughted, -pated, -brained, and -witted (colloquial) = dull; stupid; slow.
1885. Mrs. J. H. Riddell, Mitre Court, ch. xix. He is a fathead—a great blundering John Bull.
Father, subs. (thieves').—1. A
receiver of stolen property; a
fence (q.v.).
