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fat-shame en · VERB

Etymology

From fat + shame (verb).

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To criticise or deride (someone) because of their overweightness or obesity.
    • Today, Ansari professes to regret the joke. “Uh, probably no reason to fat-shame my little cousin on a global scale,” he says in Right Now. 2019 July 11, Megan Garber, quoting Aziz Ansari, “Aziz Ansari and the Physics of Moving Forward”, in The Atlantic:
    • Using the same format as posters intended to fat-shame children, but changing the message to fat positivity, queers fat. 2016, Cat Pausé, Jackie Wykes, Samantha Murray, Queering Fat Embodiment, Routledge, page 78:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
fat-shaming Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
fat-shames Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
fatshame alternative lexicographic
fat-shamed Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
fat-shamed Tense=Past lexicographic
fat shame alternative lexicographic

Descendants

fatshamen

Relateds

fat-shaming · fat-shamer

Translations (5)

es mortificar la gordura de (por) (making fun of a person's weight) · ms sindir gemuk (making fun of a person's weight) · de fatshamen (making fun of a person's weight) · es humillar por ser gordo (making fun of a person's weight) · es ser gordofóbico contra (making fun of a person's weight)