fatty boombalatty

English

Etymology

From a 19th century children's rhyme: "Fatty, Fatty, Boom-a-latty; This is the way he goes! He is so large around the waist, he can not see his toes!". Earliest written attestation from 1899.[1]

Noun

fatty boombalatty (plural fatty boombalatties)

  1. (derogatory, slang) An extremely obese person.
    • 1908, Minnesota Magazine, Volume 14‎[2]:
      Fatty Jones proposed it over his shoulders as he waddled along in the dust. The rest whoop wild agreement. "Fatty, Fatty, boom-a-latty," they screeched joyously. […]
    • 1909, Edith Loring Fullerton, The Lure of the Land, page 58:
      O well, never mind, mother, he can have the ‘fatty, fatty, boom-a-latties’ and I will eat the 'petit pois'. They are sweetest. […]
    • 1933 March 31, The Washington Post, page 15:
      This fatty-fatty-boombalatty kid, Ed Linke, who is pitching himself into a regular's berth on the Nats' trip home, is pretty full of awareness, for a rookie.
    • 1946, Russell Jachne McLauchlin, Alfred Street, page 20:
      An extremely common one, certain to assail my ears whenever I went into a strange neighorbood, was in these words: “Fatty, Fatty, Boom-a-latty, here’s the way he goes.”
    • 1999, King of the Hill, "Bills Are Made to Be Broken", Season 4, Episode 3:
      Now onto more important matters, my motion to add “fatty fatty boombalatty” to the list of unacceptable hate speech.
  2. (slang) An extremely thick joint or blunt of marijuana.

See also

References

  1. ^ Francis P. Wightman (1899), Little Leather Breeches, and other Southern Rhymes. Being a number of Folk-lore songs, Negro rhymes, Street-vendors' cries, etc., gathered from various parts of the South‎[1]
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