OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 48342

fat

/fæt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
gordiflón • gordinflas • gordinflón • gordo
Carrying more fat than usual on one's body; plump; not lean or thin.
The fat man had problems going through the door.
The fattest pig should yield the most meat.
grueso
Thick; large.
The fat wallets of the men from the city brought joy to the peddlers.
The thickest salmon, the curdiest trout, the fattest partridge, and the most tender woodcock smoked on his board, and, rumor said, cooked with a delicacy that more pretentious hous…
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📚 noun • entry_id 48343

fat

/fæt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
grasa
A lipid that is solid at room temperature, which fat tissue contains and which is also found in the blood circulation; sometimes, a refined substance chemically resembling such naturally occurring lipids.
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 va…
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…
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