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13 Dec 2018
Portuguese (Brazil)
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Why is calling someone chubby is offensive? How do you call someone overweight in a cute and loving way? Because in Brazil we can find and say that someone is cute for being overweight, like chubby cheeks, but in Portuguese we literally say "little fat/chubby/fluffy" and that is not rude at all most of the times.
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We take that as an offense, that you are calling us overweight. We don’t have a word that means chubby in a nice or endearing way.
I find it very interesting that you do, though!
I find it very interesting that you do, though!
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@Cat272 Interesting. So I should avoid trying to compliment someone in that sense right?
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@markbfc I know what you mean, in Mexico calling someone "gordito" or "gordita" is affectionate and very often used as a term of endearment between couples. There is no such thing in English. Here in the US, any person who is not of Latin or Hispanic ancestry would take that as rude and offensive.
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well this is probably not what you're looking for but there is a slang term thicc which means fat in a good way but has sexual overtones
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