a. [f. FAT a. + -ISH.] a. Somewhat fat; fairly supplied with fat. † b. Somewhat greasy or unctuous. Obs.
a. c. 1369. Chaucer, Dethe Blaunche, 954.
| She had, and armes ever lith | |
| Fattish, fleshy, nat great therewith. |
1577. B. Googe, Heresbach’s Husb., IV. 161. For fatting, the best are those [poultry] that have the skinnes of theyr neckes thicke and fattysh.
1668. Culpepper & Cole, Barthol. Anat., III. ix. 149. In the Lobe it is so mingled with Flesh, that it becomes thereby fattish, fleshy and spungy.
1815. J. W. Croker, in Croker Papers (1884), I. iii. 65. Talleyrand … is fattish for a Frenchman; his ankles are weak and his feet deformed, and he totters about in a strange way.
1864. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt. (1865), IV. II. iii. 58. The jolly Ambassador of the amiablest Monarch … Camas, a fattish man.
b. 1589. Fleming, Virg. Georg., III. 51. Pitch of trees on Ida hill, and fattish wax with grease.
1610. W. Folkingham, Art of Survey, I. x. 32. The Fullers Chaulky Clay mixed with a viscous and fattish Earth, is another white Marle, and is better for graine then for grasse.
1671. J. Webster, Metallogr., xiii. 216. Also thin plates of white silver in a fattish stone, as also thin plates or leaves at Marieberg in an hard ash-coloured stone.
1726. Leoni, trans. Alberti’s Archit., I. III. 49 a. The fattish sort [of mortar] is more tenacious than the lean.
Hence Fattishness, the quality of being fattish.
1662. H. Stubbe, Ind. Nectar, iii. 28. The body of the water and top did shine with a visible Fattishnesse.
