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Several years ago when a co-worker gingerly told me that I was not fat but just big-boned and round, I thought,  ell, gee thanks! That is precious and makes me feel better.  Not really.  Who was she kidding?  Big-boned and round?  Those were just two of the many euphemisms for the word  AT.  Try plump, chubby, thick, chunky, portly, curvaceous, adipose, corpulent, and Rubenesque among others. To me they are all the same.  Fat is fat and no matter how nice one tries to put it, there really is no inoffensive substitute to the word.  Note to size 0 people, try just keeping your mouth shut whenever you are in the presence of size 8 and up people.