Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Fat; gross: used in contempt.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Gross; lubberly.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective pejorative, archaic An insult meaning gross and lubberly.

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Examples

  • And if thou gleeking fat-kidneyed boar-pigs can't insult nicely, then don't insult at all ...

    Insult Me With Shakespeare, Please Dave Hurteau 2008

  • We spend some time with "The Shakespeare Insult Kit," which offers choice adjectives and nouns from the Bard's work that one can configure in any number of combinations, such as "thou dankish, fat-kidneyed moldwarp" or "thou mammering, onion-eyed ratsbane."

    Buttering Up vs. Taking Down 2008

  • We spend some time with "The Shakespeare Insult Kit," which offers choice adjectives and nouns from the Bard's work that one can configure in any number of combinations, such as "thou dankish, fat-kidneyed moldwarp" or "thou mammering, onion-eyed ratsbane."

    Buttering Up vs. Taking Down 2007

  • Peace, ye fat-kidneyed rascal! what a brawling dost thou keep!

    The first part of King Henry the Fourth 2004

  • The three of us were given advice and instruction in couplets; we were more likely to refer to a hated playmate as a "fat-kidneyed rascal" than a jerk; we played under the tables at Christmas parties where phrases like "deconstructionist philosophy" and "patriarchal malfeasance" drifted down through the heavy tablecloths with the carols.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • The three of us were given advice and instruction in couplets; we were more likely to refer to a hated playmate as a "fat-kidneyed rascal" than a jerk; we played under the tables at Christmas parties where phrases like "deconstructionist philosophy" and "patriarchal malfeasance" drifted down through the heavy tablecloths with the carols.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • Peace, ye fat-kidneyed rascal! what a brawling dost thou keep!

    The First Part of King Henry IV 1596

  • Perhaps on "Talk Like Shakespeare Day," other politicians will resort to name-calling with phrases like, "thou churlish onion-eyed scullion," or "thou logger-headed, fat-kidneyed malt worm."

    Chicago news, weather, traffic - CBS 2 - WBBM 2009

  • Sadly, no such book is in existence, but it would make a great companion piece Shakespeare’s Insults: Educating Your Wit; the bizarre imagery of “You sound like a Nazi Julie Andrews” rivals that of “Thou goatish fat-kidneyed harpy!” any day.

    IN THE LOOP DVD Review – Collider.com 2010

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