baby-fat

See also: baby fat and babyfat

English

Noun

baby-fat (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of baby fat.
    • 1903 August 1, “Sheep Notes”, in Breeder and Sportsman, volume XLIII, number 5, San Francisco, Calif., →OCLC, page 12, column 3:
      Keep the baby-fat on your lambs; when they have lost that they have lost their growth.
    • 1970, Tucker Coe [pseudonym; Donald Edwin Westlake], chapter 5, in A Jade in Aries (A Mitchell Tobin Story; 4), New York, N.Y.: Random House, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 48:
      He was of average height but a bit chunky, with a soft layer of baby-fat that made him look somewhat clumsy, though when when he got up from the clear plastic inflated armchair—which I later found it difficult to get out of—he moved with the automatic grace of an athlete.
    • 2005, Tamra Norton, chapter 15, in Molly Mommy?, Springville, Ut.: Bonneville Books, →ISBN, page 82:
      My only hope was that somehow he wouldn’t recognize me as we passed (after all, I had gained a bit of baby-fat over the past few months).
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