big-boned

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big-boned

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Of a person or animal: large but not obese. […] big-boned womenfolk strode away from their tea-tables to listen to the imperious Doctor.
euphemistic, humorous Fat, obese. Coffins for the Big-Boned. As the media never tires of telling us, America has become a junk-food nation with the fattest population on the planet.

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@misc{big_boned_2026,
  title = {big-boned},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/big-boned},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}