English

Alternative forms

• big boned

Adjective

big-boned ‎(comparative more big-boned, superlative most big-boned)

1. Used other than as an idiom: 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 End

     Coffins 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.