the.com/fatty
the nutrient your brain is secretly made of and quietly begging for.
means Informal and often affectionate or teasing slang for a person carrying extra body fat, or an adjective for something rich in fat.
from Straight from Old English 'fǣtt,' meaning fattened or gross, with cousins across the Germanic languages (Dutch 'vet,' German 'fett'). The '-y' suffix is the same old English habit of turning a noun into 'full of that thing' — so 'fatty' is simply 'full of fat,' a word that's been doing double duty as description and playground jab for centuries.
- brain fuel
- Your brain is nearly 60% fat by weight.
- slow burn
- Stores twice the energy per gram as carbs.
- vitamin key
- Vitamins A, D, E, K need fat to absorb.
- old slang
- Used as a friendly nickname since the 1700s.
fatty arbuckle — silent film star (1887-1933) whose nickname came from his weight and comedic persona
fatty acids — organic compounds in biochemistry, including omega-3 and omega-6 types essential to human nutrition