as in greasy
containing animal fat especially in unusual amounts fatty ground beef that was the cheapest available

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Recent Examples of fatty Some foods that have it are fatty fish, beef liver, egg yolks, cheese, and mushrooms. Cindy Krischer Goodman, Sun Sentinel, 17 July 2025 Examples of fatty fish include: Most of the vitamins and minerals in eggs are within the egg yolk. Ashley Braun, Verywell Health, 1 July 2025 Every durian is quite rich and quite fatty tasting and quite creamy tasting. Ari Daniel, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 June 2025 Cuts of meat from animal muscle contain very little fat, making bones — which contain marrow and other fatty tissue even when an animal is malnourished — a more important resource. Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 4 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for fatty
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Adjective
  • An effective cleanser takes away that slick, greasy feeling, but won’t leave your skin feeling stripped of moisture.
    Jessica Kasparian, SELF, 16 July 2025
  • But the fear of getting greasy yellow butter topping on Krypto’s white felt makes this, to me, less functional as a popcorn bucket.
    Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 15 July 2025
Adjective
  • The air—the air was too thick with adipose food-truck fumes.
    Kent Russell, Harper's Magazine, 28 Feb. 2025
  • This compound is believed to target adipose fat tissue, including the stubborn fat that many of us suffer from in the abdomen area.
    Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 2 June 2023

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“Fatty.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fatty. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.

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