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  • adjective comparative form of fatty: more fatty

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Examples

  • Spanish mackerel, she says, is a fish that's ideal in cold months because it gets fattier in winter, making its meat richer and all the more delicious.

    Spanish Mackerel With Blood Orange and Anchovy Sauce Kitty Greenwald 2011

  • "As long as they manage to reproduce and have a child that lives, it doesn't really matter that a high protein low fat diet kills them off, and I fail to believe they wouldn't catch a fatty fish once in a while or horror upon horror, eat a fattier human once in a while ...."

    Boing Boing 2009

  • I'll go back for their other ramen including Tonkotsu Ramen, the pork-broth style that's rich and fattier, as well as the other Japanese fare from Bento Zanmai.

    Gil Asakawa: Noodling on a Theme: A Colorado Ramen Roundup Gil Asakawa 2011

  • In restaurants, hamburgers tend to be made from fattier meat; the fat makes them juicier and easier to cook.

    The Flex Diet M.D. James Beckerman 2011

  • Made from chickpeas, this Middle Eastern dip/spread can also be used as a condiment in place of fattier toppings like mayonnaise and sour cream.

    The Small Change Diet Keri Gans 2011

  • I'll go back for their other ramen including Tonkotsu Ramen, the pork-broth style that's rich and fattier, as well as the other Japanese fare from Bento Zanmai.

    Gil Asakawa: Noodling on a Theme: A Colorado Ramen Roundup Gil Asakawa 2011

  • In the Schuldt experiments, they saw food as nutritionally better if it was ideologically closer to them without pausing to reason out the fact that a gram of milk chocolate has the same effect on you regardless of how much fattier other chocolates are, or how well the cows were treated.

    David Berreby: Confusing Virtues: People Who Like a Food's Politics Think It Has Fewer Calories David Berreby 2012

  • In the Schuldt experiments, they saw food as nutritionally better if it was ideologically closer to them without pausing to reason out the fact that a gram of milk chocolate has the same effect on you regardless of how much fattier other chocolates are, or how well the cows were treated.

    David Berreby: Confusing Virtues: People Who Like a Food's Politics Think It Has Fewer Calories David Berreby 2012

  • In restaurants, hamburgers tend to be made from fattier meat; the fat makes them juicier and easier to cook.

    The Flex Diet M.D. James Beckerman 2011

  • There are many Mexican favorites that can be adapted to chicken and fish rather than the fattier beef and pork.

    The lighter side of Mexican cooking 2009

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