Crassulent — High-Vocabulary Word of the Day

CRASSULENT

adj. grotesquely obese

 

"People, in case you haven't noticed,

are a crassulent, beef-witted lot."

— Sherlock Holmes

Elementary s3e13 "Hemlock" (2015)

 

How to remember:

This comes from the Latin word "crassus" (fatty, thick)

which also gave us the words "crass" and “grease”

 

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