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fatso

nounattested in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈfæt.soʊ//
  • United States//ˈfæ.t͡soʊ//

Someone who is overweight.

noun

  1. 1

    Someone who is overweight.

    'Yo next, Fatso,' said one of them as the bus came up out of the rain and stopped with a sigh from the great vacuum brakes.

    He went to the upstairs lookout and peered down upon the political bod, whom he recognised as the fatso who had given a thin, starving speech one lunch-time to the new High School students[.]

Etymology

Etymology tree English fats Latin ō Old French ohbor. Middle English o English O English oh English -o English fatso From fats + -o.

Forms

plural
fatsos, fatsoes
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).