full-figured
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]full-figured (not comparable)
- (of a person, especially a woman) Fat; plump.
- 2008 June 3, Kira Cochrane, “Don't call me curvy. Or big-boned. Or 'real'”, in The Guardian, UK, retrieved 24 June 2008:
- I can honestly say that my attitude to my body became markedly better when I accepted that I was fat. . . . Often more offensive terms are used. Full-figured, big-boned, voluptuous, curvaceous, and my least favourite: "real woman".
Synonyms
[edit]- buxom, corpulent, heavyset, portly, pudgy, stout, well-covered, well-endowed; See also Thesaurus:overweight or Thesaurus:voluptuous
Translations
[edit]plump
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References
[edit]- “full-figured”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.