different between obese vs chunker

English

Etymology

From Latin ob?sus, derived from obed? (“I devour, eat away”), from ob (“away”) + ed? (“I eat”)

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /o??bis/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /???bi?s/, /??bi?s/

Adjective

obese (comparative more obese, superlative most obese or obesest)

1. Extremely overweight, especially: weighing more than 20% (for men) or 25% (for women) over their ideal weight determined by height and build; or, having a body mass index over 30 kg/m².

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:obese

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• fat

Anagrams

• Boese

Interlingua

Adjective

obese (not comparable)

1. obese

Related terms

• obesitate

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?ze

Adjective

obese

1. feminine plural of obeso

Noun

obese f pl

1. feminine plural of obeso

Latin

Participle

ob?se

1. vocative masculine singular of ob?sus

English

Etymology

chunk +? -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??k?(?)

Noun

chunker (plural chunkers)

1. (informal) An obese or overweight person
   • 2009, Catherine Deveny, Free to a Good Home, page 193

     I love fat people. Chubby-chasing is my hobby. I enjoy nothing more than waving a vanilla slice under some chunker's nose, tying it to my bumper bar with a string of jelly snakes then driving round the block at gelati-van pace

   • 2011, Bil Wright, Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy, page 37

     Double-breasted on a chunker can sometimes be a really sad look, but on me this thing is L'uomo Vogue!

2. (computational linguistics) A software tool for dividing text into chunks.

Anagrams

• rechunk