Zaftig
Adjective
Pronunciation
\ZAHF-tig\
Definition
- having a full rounded figure : pleasingly plump.
Examples
"… Marilyn is lucky that … the Hollywood powers at
least had the smarts not to put her on a diet. She looked plenty good
zaftig." — Bookwormroom.com, 31 May 2012
"But Oprah—now
there's a woman who has run the dieting gauntlet over the years. In 1988, she
pulled a wagon full of 67 pounds of quivering fat onto the stage to show what
she had lost on a liquid diet. Then she ballooned up to 200 pounds after a
thyroid malfunction, before running the Marine Corps Marathon at a healthy
zaftig size." — Leah McLaren, The Globe and Mail (Canada), 23 Oct.
2015
Did You Know?
Over the centuries,
some women have been approvingly described as full-figured, shapely, womanly,
curvy, curvaceous, voluptuous, and statuesque. Such women are, in a word,
zaftig. Zaftig has been juicing up our language since the 1930s (the same
decade that gave us Yiddish-derived futz, hoo-ha, and schmaltz, not to mention
lox). It comes from the Yiddish zaftik, which means "juicy" or
"succulent" and which in turn derives from zaft, meaning
"juice" or "sap."
Quiz
Unscramble the letters to create an adjective that can mean
"notably plump": TDUONR.
Merriam-Webster
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