root word: taba (meaning: fat) tabachoy overweight person tabachoy rotund, corpulent, stout, portly, dumpy Standard spelling: tabátsoy Variations: tabatchoy, tabatsúy, tabaching, tabatsing Shortened to batchoi, batchoy or the like. This is a mild, almost affectionate, term. Filipinos don’t take it as a harsh insult the way Americans with low self-esteem do to anything related to weight. … Continue "TABACHOY"
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