superfat en · ADJ
Pronunciation
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Etymology
From super- + fat.
Meanings
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(informal) Extremely obese.
For superfat and infinifat people, fatphobic culture is even more traumatizing.
2020 August 14, Crystal Kotow, “Big, Beautiful Affect: Exploring the Emotional Environment of BBW Social Events and Its Relationship to Fat Women's Embodiment”, in York University, archived from the original on 28 Dec 2024, page 224:If you are a midsize (think size 22-24) to superfat (size 26-32), you by all accounts are the type of fat no one wants to be.
2021, Joy Arlene Renee Cox, Fat Girls in Black Bodies: Creating Communities of Our Own, page 15:But at bashes, as one of many fat and superfat women in the room, if I want attention—sexual or otherwise—I work harder to get it.
2019, Crystal L. M. Kotow, “Oppressive Liberation: BBW Bashes and the Affective Rollercoaster”, in Carla Rice, Jen Rinaldi, Mary Friedman, editors, Thickening Fat Fat Bodies, Intersectionality, and Social Justice, unnumbered page:Superfat and infinifat women live in bodies that, even in a somewhat fat-positive environment, do not perform fatness in the “right way” either because they are perceived as too large altogether or their shape does not conform to the hourglass or pear ideal of a large and perky bust, small tummy and waist, and thick thighs and bottom.
2020 December 14, Jennifer Jolie, “Body Positivity as Public Pedagogy?: The Case of the #effyourbeautystandards Movement on Instagram”, in Lakehead University, archived from the original on 27 Sep 2021, page 54:In workshops extraordinary scenes would unfold, for example the superfat Apple Hard turned a cartwheel, […]
2016, Charlotte Cooper, Fat Activism: A Radical Social Movement, unnumbered page:Although body sizes in #bodypositive posts were more likely to be thin or small fat, posts also included fat and superfat bodies, whereas #fitspiration depicted predominately thin/fit or hypermuscular bodies.
2019 May 10, Rayanne Connie Streeter, “Are All Bodies Good Bodies?: Redefining Femininity Through Discourses of Health, Beauty, and Gender in Body Positivity”, in Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, archived from the original on 12 Jul 2024, page 173:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| most superfat | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more superfat | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |