Cute. But I of course meant a word you could use that would immediately conjure an image of a curvy, but not overweight, figure, without any second guessing about whether it’s code talk for fat. If a woman describes herself as curvy, I automatically interpret that to mean fat. If a man describes a woman as curvy, I’m unsure of if he’s trying to find a nice way of describing her as fat.
I would say that voluptuous (as a fat and fabu gal) is even more synonymous with fat than curvy is. At least for me, I interpret voluptuous as “fat with a nice rack” as opposed to just fat.
Meh. I’m done thinking about this. I think if you specifically have to tack on the words “but not fat” to make it clear you’re not engaging in euphemismry.
I call women who starve themselves to fit a “supermodel” image “scrawny”. I used to call them “skinny”, but I found that they like that. They don’t like scrawny, so scrawny it is.
I like “yummy”. I don’t like abs on a women. Or flat butts.
Jennifer Lopez looks yummy to me. Like that, yummy.
One of the feral cats that eats at my house is quite obese (which makes him twice as adorable) so I call him Fattie. He doesn’t find it offensive or think of it as a slur word, in fact recently I got him to come to me just by saying, “come here, Fattie”.
Now there is another stray out there who I call Blackie (I think I see a naming pattern here ;)) and my grown son has told me on a couple of occasions that I should be careful opening the door and shouting, “Blackie!” because it might be offensive to those who don’t know it is a cat.
I never thought of either as a slur really…just a description and one done in a cutesy (not mean) way.
That works. “Has a great personality” does too, but I think that usually means “ugly” so if the woman you are describing “Has a great personality and a good sense of humor” I guess she’d be both fat and ugly?
I’ll support your list, but only if we also ban entirely from the board the following: boobie, tushy, burp, fanny burp, water closet, underpants, dingle-dangle, Boston marriage, LBJ, Titicaca, hot dog, and front lumps.
Double Ha! Every time someone compliments me on some off the wall thing, I say “Thank You,” but am secretly thinking, “Is he saying I’m ugly?” Last strange compliment I received from a guy was on my eyelashes. That’s sort of like “Nice eyes.”
I had a dog who I referred to as Blackie for several months because I couldn’t be bothered to come up with a name. My mom said, “You can’t call the dog that!” I said, “Why not?” When she just kind of grimaced at me instead of answering, it dawned on me, oh yeah, that. We might have gotten less flak for shouting “Blackie!” in public because we were (still are) black, but I would still imagine it would have been an unpleasant thing to hear for some people.
A (female) friend once told me that one of the first things she had noticed about me when we met (after several months of online chat) was that I had kind eyes. Was she trying to avoid saying something else?