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Having excess flesh
plump, heavy, overweight, obese, corpulent, portly, stout, fleshy, chubby, potbellied, paunchy, beefy, brawny, solid, plumpish, pleasantly plump, rotund, burly, bulky, unwieldly, husky, stocky, heavyset, thickset, chunky, tubby, pudgy, roly-poly, round, dumpy, flabby, puffy, weighty, hefty, meaty, on the heavy side, well-fed, in need of dieting, pursy, abdominous, adipose, porcine, big, massive, swollen, bloated, hypertrophied, ponderous, lumpish, gross, blowzy, broad in the beam*; see also large 1.
Antonyms thin*, lean, skinny.
Having a large cross section
thick, broad, big; see broad 1, deep 2.
Productive
rich, fruitful, profitable; see fertile 1.
Oily
greasy, fatty, oleaginous; see fatty, oily 1.

chew the fat*

chat, gossip, confer; see talk 1.

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blubber, grease, adipose tissue, hydrogenated vegetable fat, tallow, suet, lard, shortening, oil, lipid, flab*.
Edible fats include: butter, butterfat, oleomargarine, margarine, lard, cottonseed oil, olive oil, corn oil, vegetable oil, canola oil, fish oil, coconut oil, palm oil, sesame oil, sunflower oil, soybean oil, safflower oil, cod-liver oil, peanut oil.
Chemical terms used of edible fats include: saturated, unsaturated, monounsaturated, polyunsaturated, hydrogenated, partially hydrogenated.

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fat obese corpulent fleshy portly stout pudgy rotund plump ¹chubby

These adjectives mean having an abundance and often an excess of flesh. Fat implies excessive weight and generally has negative connotations: was getting fat and decided to exercise.
Obese and corpulent imply gross overweight: “a woman of robust frame . . . though stout, not obese” (Charlotte Brontë). The dancer was corpulent but surprisingly graceful.
Fleshy implies a not necessarily excessive abundance of flesh: firm, fleshy arms.
Portly refers to bulk combined with a stately or imposing bearing: “a portly, rubicund man of middle age” (Winston Churchill).
Stout denotes a thickset, bulky figure: a painting of stout peasants.
Pudgy means short and fat: pudgy fingers.
Rotund suggests roundness of figure, often in a squat person: “this pink-faced rotund specimen of prosperity” (George Eliot).
Plump and chubby apply to a pleasing fullness of figure: a plump little toddler; chubby cheeks.

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