big-boned
English
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Adjective
big-boned (comparative more big-boned, superlative most big-boned)
- Of a person or animal: large but not obese.
- 1904, Rudyard Kipling, They:
- […] big-boned womenfolk strode away from their tea-tables to listen to the imperious Doctor.
- (humorous or euphemistic) Fat, obese.
- 1999, Nicole Hollander, My Cat's Not Fat, He's Just Big-Boned:
- 2009, Harold Schechter, The Whole Death Catalog: A Lively Guide to the Bitter End:
- Coffins for the Big-Boned. As the media never tires of telling us, America has become a junk-food nation with the fattest population on the planet.
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