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語源

From heavy +‎ set.

発音

• IPA: /ˈhɛviˌsɛt/

形容詞

heavyset (comparative more heavyset, superlative most heavyset)

1. (of a person) Overweight.

   Synonyms: heavy, husky

   Coordinate terms: thicc (informal, sometimes synonymous); obese

   1. (euphemistic) Obese.
2. (of a person) Having a large, solid, imposing bodily appearance.

   Synonyms: thickset, stout, stocky

   • 1989 March 20, “One Bear Of a Soviet Politician”, in Time:

     No Soviet political figure has been as irreverently outspoken about Soviet life or as ambitious to change it as Boris Yeltsin, 58, a heavyset, 6-ft. 2-in. man from Sverdlovsk in the Ural Mountains.

使用する際の注意点

• Heavyset suggests corpulence, and sometimes a squat appearance, but not severe obesity; thus, when someone describes a severely obese person as heavyset, they are being euphemistically polite.