superfat

From super- +‎ fat.

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superfat (comparative more superfat, superlative most superfat)

1. (informal) Extremely obese.
   • 2016, Charlotte Cooper, Fat Activism: A Radical Social Movement, unnumbered page:

     In workshops extraordinary scenes would unfold, for example the superfat Apple Hard turned a cartwheel, […]

   • 2019, Crystal L. M. Kotow, “Oppressive Liberation: BBW Bashes and the Affective Rollercoaster”, in Carla Rice, Jen Rinaldi, Mary Friedman, editors, Thickening Fat Fat Bodies, Intersectionality, and Social Justice, unnumbered page:

     But at bashes, as one of many fat and superfat women in the room, if I want attention—sexual or otherwise—I work harder to get it.

   • 2019 May 10, Rayanne Connie Streeter, “Are All Bodies Good Bodies?: Redefining Femininity Through Discourses of Health, Beauty, and Gender in Body Positivity”, in Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University‎^[1], archived from the original on 12 July 2024, page 173:

     Although body sizes in #bodypositive posts were more likely to be thin or small fat, posts also included fat and superfat bodies, whereas #fitspiration depicted predominately thin/fit or hypermuscular bodies.

   • 2020 August, Crystal Kotow, “Big, Beautiful Affect: Exploring the Emotional Environment of BBW Social Events and Its Relationship to Fat Women's Embodiment”, in York University‎^[2], archived from the original on 28 December 2024, page 224:

     For superfat and infinifat people, fatphobic culture is even more traumatizing.

   • 2020 December, Jennifer Jolie, “Body Positivity as Public Pedagogy?: The Case of the #effyourbeautystandards Movement on Instagram”, in Lakehead University‎^[3], archived from the original on 27 September 2021, page 54:

     Superfat and infinifat women live in bodies that, even in a somewhat fat-positive environment, do not perform fatness in the “right way” either because they are perceived as too large altogether or their shape does not conform to the hourglass or pear ideal of a large and perky bust, small tummy and waist, and thick thighs and bottom.

   • 2021, Joy Arlene Renee Cox, Fat Girls in Black Bodies: Creating Communities of Our Own‎^[4], page 15:

     If you are a midsize (think size 22-24) to superfat (size 26-32), you by all accounts are the type of fat no one wants to be.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:superfat.

superfat (plural superfats)

1. (informal) An extremely obese person.
   • 2018, "feelingswithbrandy", quoted in Sarah E. Bolden, "Unsettling Boundaries: (Pre-)Digital Fat Activism, Fatphobia, and Enclave Ambivalence", thesis submitted to Syracuse University, page 127:

     Superfats take on more drastic risks in their body positive activism, in return for very little benefit for themselves.

   • 2021, Sarah Doherty, quoted in Sarah Doherty, Shana McDavis-Conway, Adrienne Hill, Elaine Lee, Sydney Lewis, Aaminah Shakur, & Cicely Smith, "A conversation about fat activism among activists in community with Nolose", Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society:

     Can I write basic access stuff about what it takes to make sure superfatties can enter a space, in enough event notices or posters that other people start to do it too?

   • 2021, Dawn Haney, Max Airbone, Charis Stiles, “Cultivating new fat liberation movements: growing a movement ecology with Fat Rose”, in Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society:

     Many raised their hands proudly, superfats and scooter riders ready and willing to fight against fascism.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:superfat.

superfat (third-person singular simple present superfats, present participle superfatting, simple past and past participle superfatted)

1. To use excess fat in soapmaking to consume the alkali and give the soap a more moisturizing effect.