Phat

[Alan Baragona]

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> And 'fat' has meant 'good' since at least 1610.
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> Jonathon Green

See also Chaucer's "Envoy to Bukton": "Since I from Love escaped am so fat,"
presumably a pun on Chaucer's rotundity but also suggesting "well out of
it."

Alan Baragona