fatso
Americannoun
plural
fatsos, fatsoesnoun
Etymology
Origin of fatso
1940–45; perhaps Fats a nickname for a fat person ( fat, -s 4 ) + -o; also compared with fat sow, German Fettsau
Example Sentences
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“I’m a fatty fat fatso. That’s probably not the best thing — and I’ve got some other issues, but that’s just the way it is. We have got to move on with our lives,” he noted.
From Washington Times
Linda: I recently heard Glenn Beck refer to the president as a socialist and call filmmaker Michael Moore a “fatty-fatty fatso.”
From Washington Post
Heavy people are the frequent target of jokes in the media and use of the derogatory "debu," or "fatso," remains common.
From Reuters
The only thing worse than the masses of waddling slobs you see everywhere now are the number of elderly fatsos.
From New York Times
Instead, the children called him “fatso,” stuck their hands over the lenses of cameras carried by the journalists accompanying the writers, including The Washington Post, and gave the Breaking the Silence support staff the finger.
From Washington Post
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