Etymograph

English

fatty bom bom

Fatty bom bom comes from English fatty ‘a fat person’.

  1. English1500–presentfatty‘a fat person’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1990fatty bom bom

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. English1500–presentfatty‘a fat person’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1990fatty bom bom

Earliest quotation: 1990, Chua Chong Jin, The Straits Times: “He skips 500 times a day and runs three…”

Made of the words fatty + bom + bom

Middle English fatty

English fatty

Today it means

noun A fat or overweight person.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / English fatty / fatty bom bom