Word for the day: fat

fat   |fat|             *lardo (in Spanish)




 DEFINITION

noun
1 [ mass noun ] a natural oily substance occurring in animal bodies, especially when deposited as a layer under the skin or around certain organs: whales and seals insulate themselves with layers of fat.• a fatty substance made from animal or plant products, used in cooking: sizzling fat | [ count noun ] : a diet high in animal fats.• the presence of excess fat in a person or animal: he was a tall man, running to fat .2 Chemistry any of a group of natural esters of glycerol and various fatty acids, which are solid at room temperature and are the main constituents of animal and vegetable fat. Compare with oil.

 

ORIGIN Old English fǣtt ‘well fed, plump’, also ‘fatty, oily’, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch vetand German feist .

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