Fatness

Definition

fat / fæt / adj ( -tter, -ttest ) ၁။ ဝေသာ။ အယ္ေသာ။ a big fat man/woman ❍ If you eat too much chocolate you'll get fat. ❍ He grew fatter and fatter. Compare THIN ၂ ၂။ ႀကီးမားေသာ။ လံုးဝန္းေသာ။ a big fat apple. ၃။ ျပည့္ ေဖာင္းေသာ။ a fat book ❍ a fat wallet (ie one with a lot of money in). ၄။ ( infml ) စို႔စို႔ပို႔ပို႔ရိွေသာ။ မ်ားေသာ။ a fat sum/profit ❍ He gave me a nice fat cheque (ie one for a lot of money). n ၁။ [U] (က) အဆီ။ excess body fat ❍ This ham has too much fat on it. (ခ) သစ္ေစ့ အခ်ဳိ႕မွရေသာ ဆီ။ ၂။ [C,U] စားသံုးဆီ။ ဆီ။ Fried potatoes are cooked in deep fat. ၃။ [C,U] အဆီ။ You should cut down on fats and carbohydrates. ❍ foods which are low in fat ❍ fat-free yoghurts. ❏ (a) fat chance (of sth/doing sth) [ IDM ] ( infml ironic ) (often as an interj ) အားႀကီးရပါလိမ့္မယ္။ ‘Maybe they'll let us in without tickets. ’ ‘Fat chance (of that)!’ ❏ the fat is in the fire [ IDM ] ( infml ) ဒုကၡေရာက္စရာ ရိွသည္။ ❏ a fat lot (of good, etc) [ IDM ] ( infml ironic ) အားႀကီး။ A fat lot you care (ie You don't care at all). ❍ A fat lot of good that did me (ie It didn't help me at all). fatness n [U] ❏ fat cat n ( infml esp US ) စားဖားႀကီး။ ❏ fat-head n ( infml ) တံုးတာ။

Examples

1. He’s got a rather fat face.
2. [get fat] : She can eat whatever she likes and she never gets fat.
3. A big fat cigar
4. A fat book/volume
5. A fat wallet
6. I bet he gets a nice fat salary!
7. The company made a fat profit this year.