Farty vs Fatty - What's the difference?
farty | fatty |
(informal) Resembling or characteristic of a fart; flatulent.
* 2005 , Craig Sherborne, Hoi Polloi (page 66)
(chiefly, British, informal) Small and insignificant; petty.
* 2008 , Milly Johnson, The Birds and the Bees
Containing, composed of, or consisting of fat.
* 1896 , , (The Island of Doctor Moreau) , .
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* 1849 , (Hippocrates) (Translated by (Francis Bacon)), , Book II, Section 1.
* 1861 , (Charles Dickens), (Great Expectations) ,
(slang) Literally or figuratively large.
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* 2007 , A. Bryant,
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(pejorative, slang) An obese person.
As adjectives the difference between farty and fatty
is that farty is resembling or characteristic of a fart; flatulent while fatty is containing, composed of, or consisting of fat.As a noun fatty is
an obese person.farty
English
Adjective
(fartier)- He slaps me playfully on the knee just as Heels opens the flat's door letting in a farty smell of boiling vegetables from the rest of the building.
- If the bloody basic bill wasn't bad enough, he discovered all the ironing services she had charged to the room, and she had just wasted another fifteen quid on coffee and farty little chocolate truffles
fatty
English
(quotations et al)Adjective
(er)- Then in the case of excisions you have all kinds of secondary changes, pigmentary disturbances, modifications of the passions, alterations in the secretion of fatty tissue.
- That means eating fruits and vegetables and cutting back on fatty foods.
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- On the sixth, stools black, fatty , viscid, fetid; slept, more collected.
- which had a greasy and fatty surface like cold broth
getting rid of weed smell tips
- Be careful of the taxi drivers out there though, I've heard they sell you drugs, drop you off at your hotel and then dob you in to the Thai Police to get a fatty reward!
Disappointment to Say the Least
- Instead of going my normal route (ordering the book through the store, checking it out in person, and then ordering it online so I could get a fatty discount) I impulsively bought the book.
- I'm trying to get a fatty project done in a couple of hours right now.
Derived terms
* fatty acidNoun
(fatties)- It's hardly surprising, when it has to support that enormous gut! Lose some weight, fatty !