squeezablysoft
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I'm not crazy about the word "fat", it sounds sharp and hard, like the opposite of what fat is really like. So I went in search of some alternatives:
The "H-words" have a feeling of strength connected to them, and possibly also health, and emphasize the actual weight of the person:heavy, hefty, husky, "healthy", hearty (I feel like hunky should be here too, but it isn't used in this context)
The "P-words" have a feeling of soft roundness, and fullness about them, ad also cuteness: pudgy, plump, plus-size, paunchy, portly has a sense of solidity like stout, pyknic is one of my favorites because it sounds exactly like "picnic"
The "R-words" sound very round and often carry connotations of largeness and even grandeur: round(ed), rotund, robust, roly-poly, Rubensesque (though the origin of this one also puts it in the "sensuous" category)
The "C-words) imply cuteness, and maybe someone who is more wide/thick than truly big: chunky, chub/chubster/chubby (chunky+baby=chubby?), curvy/curvaceous, cub, tubby comes under this too even though it's a "T-word" (tummy+chunky+baby=tubby, adorable!), corpulent sounds science-y/medical-y to me
Other science-y/medical-y words: overweight (this is about the most neutral fat word I think), obese (which some F/FAs don't find sexy due to the medical connotations, but I like because it means REALLY fat), bariatric (same), endomorphic is really more of a build/body-type, thick and curvy come across the same way, you can weigh relatively little and still be thick, curvy, and/or have a body that tends more towards fat than bone/muscle
Sensuous words (I love these): Voluptuous sounds like luxury/luxurious/lush/luscious/delicious, and feels like velvet and silk and that delicious shudder you get when experiencing deep, intense sensory pleasure (like really good sex or really good food), Rubensesque is artsy/classy and classic/timeless, curvy/curvaceous is very descriptive of a certain type of fat body, embonpoint is a new word I just discovered googling "synoyms for fat", but I love the definition of it "1. embonpoint (adj.) sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure; 2. embonpoint (n.) the bodily property of being well rounded. Though I actually came across the word many years ago whilst reading a cookbook (maybe "The Joy of Cooking"???), there was a chapter on hostessing and the theoretical perfect hostess was described as being "all embonpoint and cheer", I think they mentioned something about her wearing a dress of a particular fancy fabric I've since forgotten, at any rate I assumed the word "embonpoint" had something to do with either fancy dress or cheerfulness and I never bothered to look it up.
The "H-words" have a feeling of strength connected to them, and possibly also health, and emphasize the actual weight of the person:heavy, hefty, husky, "healthy", hearty (I feel like hunky should be here too, but it isn't used in this context)
The "P-words" have a feeling of soft roundness, and fullness about them, ad also cuteness: pudgy, plump, plus-size, paunchy, portly has a sense of solidity like stout, pyknic is one of my favorites because it sounds exactly like "picnic"
The "R-words" sound very round and often carry connotations of largeness and even grandeur: round(ed), rotund, robust, roly-poly, Rubensesque (though the origin of this one also puts it in the "sensuous" category)
The "C-words) imply cuteness, and maybe someone who is more wide/thick than truly big: chunky, chub/chubster/chubby (chunky+baby=chubby?), curvy/curvaceous, cub, tubby comes under this too even though it's a "T-word" (tummy+chunky+baby=tubby, adorable!), corpulent sounds science-y/medical-y to me
Other science-y/medical-y words: overweight (this is about the most neutral fat word I think), obese (which some F/FAs don't find sexy due to the medical connotations, but I like because it means REALLY fat), bariatric (same), endomorphic is really more of a build/body-type, thick and curvy come across the same way, you can weigh relatively little and still be thick, curvy, and/or have a body that tends more towards fat than bone/muscle
Sensuous words (I love these): Voluptuous sounds like luxury/luxurious/lush/luscious/delicious, and feels like velvet and silk and that delicious shudder you get when experiencing deep, intense sensory pleasure (like really good sex or really good food), Rubensesque is artsy/classy and classic/timeless, curvy/curvaceous is very descriptive of a certain type of fat body, embonpoint is a new word I just discovered googling "synoyms for fat", but I love the definition of it "1. embonpoint (adj.) sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure; 2. embonpoint (n.) the bodily property of being well rounded. Though I actually came across the word many years ago whilst reading a cookbook (maybe "The Joy of Cooking"???), there was a chapter on hostessing and the theoretical perfect hostess was described as being "all embonpoint and cheer", I think they mentioned something about her wearing a dress of a particular fancy fabric I've since forgotten, at any rate I assumed the word "embonpoint" had something to do with either fancy dress or cheerfulness and I never bothered to look it up.
