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13 Dec 2018
- Portuguese (Brazil)
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English (US)
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Spanish (Colombia)
Question about United States
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.
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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- Country or region United States
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!
- Country or region Brazil
@Cat272 Interesting. So I should avoid trying to compliment someone in that sense right?
- Country or region United States
@markbfc yeah i wouldn’t use it if I were you. I don’t think anyone would take that as a compliment here no matter how cute the word you used was.
- Country or region Brazil
- Country or region Brazil
- Country or region United States
- Country or region Brazil
- Country or region United States
@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.
- Country or region United States
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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