Big-boned

Alternative forms

• big boned

Full definition of big-boned

Adjective

1. Having large bones.
• 1904, Rudyard Kipling, They...big-boned womenfolk strode away from their tea-tables to listen to the imperious Doctor.
2. (humorous or euphemistic) Fat, obese.
• 1999, Nicole Hollander, My Cat's Not Fat, He's Just Big-Boned
• 2009, Harold Schechter, The Whole Death Catalog: A Lively Guide to the Bitter EndCoffins for the Big-Boned. As the media never tires of telling us, America has become a junk-food nation with the fattest population on the planet.