fat – English noun declension

English noun forms of fat

Noun: fat
Singularfat
Pluralfats

Sample Sentences

  • Mammals that hibernate have plenty of fat to keep them warm during the winter.
  • Ask the butcher for a few pounds of fat for our greens.
  • Dietary fat is not the evil that it was once misapprehended to be; carbs are increasingly recognized as a bigger driver of atherosclerosis via chronic insulin resistance and the vascular processes that cascade from it.
  • In fact, the fats that are most stable and least likely to oxidize with heat are the highly saturated fats we've long been told to avoid—lard, tallow, butter, and coconut and palm oils. [2018, Kristin Lawless, Formerly known as food, →ISBN, page 32:]
  • We need to trim the fat in this company
  • I saw Daniel crack a fat.
  • to live on the fat of the land
  • Prefer military, bodybuilders, jocks. No smokers or fats please. [1996, Roger Stone, "Local Swing Fever", highlighted by National Enquirer in September 1996 and Daily Mail in January 2019]
  • Before riding over to the fats we'll have a look about us. [1934, Henry G. Lamond, An Aviary On The Plains, page 7:]
  • He was droving his mob of fats to Derby, to ship by the southern boat for Fremantle. [1937, Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, published 1947, page 11:]

Etymology

From Middle English fat, fatt, fatte, from the adjective above, and possibly from Old English fǣt (“fat”, recorded once), from Proto-West Germanic *fait, from Proto-Germanic *faitą, *faitaz (“fat”). See: Middle English Nouns 'fat'.

Verbs referencing "fat"

Spanish Nouns hato, Galician Nouns fato, Portuguese Nouns fato, Asturian Nouns fatu.