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landwhale en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Etymology

From land + whale.

Meanings

  1. (derogatory, slang) An obese person.
    • There is nothing else to hit on here except fat girls so the landwhales just assume that since they have no problem getting dates that it's all right to be fat. 1985, John J. Burke IV, "One male's opinion" [letter to the editor], The Pointer (University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point), Volume 29, Number 13, 21 November 1985, page 28
    • The Captain guy was talking now. Sounded official. Trim build. Looked in good shape for someone in his fifties. From what he could scope out. Interesting. Not all Americans were landwhales by thirty. 2014, Brock Barrack, Touch Wood, iUniverse, published 2010, →ISBN:
    • That's less lazy people getting Social Security, or taking jobs that us normal-sized people need. Eat yourself to death, landwhales! 2006 October, “Hearsay”, in Skinnie Magazine, page 24:
  2. (slang) An excessively large motor vehicle.
    • "It's getting close to Timmy's bedtime, so we won't stay long. I suppose you heard us arrive. We'll be staying outside tonight in that land whale we drove up in." 2012, Linda Townsley, The Dream Singer, WestBow Press, published 2012, →ISBN:
    • That jerk did such a bad job parking his landwhale that it's taking up four parking spaces!
  3. (slang) A fattened pig, harvested for its oil.
    • A. Richard Crabb, The Hybrid-Corn Makers: Prophets of Plenty (1947), p. 10: "This [c. 1850] was the era of the 'land whale,' when fat hogs, fed two years or more on a concentrated corn diet, supplied the oil that largely replaced the whale oil used earlier so extensively in the seaboard area of the United States."

Forms

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landwhales Number=Plur lexicographic
land whale alternative lexicographic

Synonyms

fatass · salad dodger · tubbo · roly-poly · oinker · porker · obeast · fatty · chubbs · fatshit · hambeast · chodder · whale · pudge · gorbelly · tubbalard · chunky monkey · chod · butterball · chunker · tub of lard · lardass · fat fuck · fatso · thunder thighs · fatfuck · tubba lard · chubster · podge · fat-ass · tub of guts · fatty bom bom · hamplanet · pig · fussock · fat · fatty boombalatty · lardo · elephant · fattie · heffalump · All are derogatory unless otherwise labeled · lardbucket · swagbelly · landwhale