fat-shame

English

Alternative forms

• fat shame

Etymology

From fat +‎ shame (verb).

Verb

fat-shame (third-person singular simple present fat-shames, present participle fat-shaming, simple past and past participle fat-shamed)

1. (transitive) To deride or criticise someone's obesity.
   • 2016, Cat Pausé, Jackie Wykes, Samantha Murray, Queering Fat Embodiment, Routledge, page 78:

     Using the same format as posters intended to fat-shame children, but changing the message to fat positivity, queers fat.

   • 2019 July 11, Megan Garber, quoting Aziz Ansari, “Aziz Ansari and the Physics of Moving Forward”, in The Atlantic‎^[1]:

     Today, Ansari professes to regret the joke. “Uh, probably no reason to fat-shame my little cousin on a global scale,” he says in Right Now.

Descendants

• → German: fatshamen

Translations

making fun of a person's weight

• German: fatshamen (uncommon)
• Malay: sindir gemuk