Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun discrimination against people who are overweight.
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- noun Discrimination on the grounds of
fatness .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun discrimination against people who are overweight
Etymologies
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Examples
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And Shuttleworth, who twice unsuccessfully referred Walker to the Press Complaints Commission alleging "fattism", has a new charge: snobbery.
Hugh Muir's diary 2011
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Hey, I used to work on the fashion desk: fattism is my tools of the trade.
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As there is a term for racism which is an attack on someones appearance why is there not a legally recognised view for ‘fattism’ or ‘uglyism’ or anything else which is in essence the same as racism!
Celebrity Big Brother Betting Odds: Jade Vs Shilpa – Final Showdown 2007
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More than that, it would be recognition that darts is indeed a sport, and that the snobbery and fattism which deny this fact belong in the past.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Worldwide, obesity is becoming a rising epidemic and fattism is coming to light as a new form of prejudice against overweight individuals.
www.charlatan.ca 2009
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Worldwide, obesity is becoming a rising epidemic and fattism is coming to light as a new form of prejudice against overweight individuals.
www.charlatan.ca 2009
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[So a bunch of fat people protested outside Boris 'office wanting laws passed to make fattism a hate crime as it is, evidently, in San Francisco, where it's illegal for a doctor to suggest weightloss for the good of one's health, if one doesn't want to address one's fattiness, and one of these protestors said,] "This is a very common event - someone being beaten up should be a crime.
ninme 2009
vendingmachine commented on the word fattism
Horrible word.
April 17, 2016
vendingmachine commented on the word fattism
I'm noticing that many of the links below the EXAMPLES warn me of possible malware if I proceed to the site. Example: ninme (above). Is wordnik warning us (since it directs us to api.wordnik.com for more info)?
April 17, 2016
erinmckean commented on the word fattism
Hi -- sorry about the warning, a few of the sites we link to DID have malware, but because of our redirects, ALL of the Wordnik example links are now throwing a warning. :-( We're removing the links to the affected sites but it's a very slow, manual process. :-(
Wordnik itself is not affected by malware.
In the meantime, if you want to see the original site for a link, the safest/easiest way is to copy/paste the whole example and google it.
April 17, 2016
vendingmachine commented on the word fattism
Thanks, Erin. I think I've reached my quota for questions, concerns, and Icelandic shenanigans for the week.
April 18, 2016