gravitationally challenged

adj

Etymology

An ironic imitation of the perceived oversensitivity of language like mentally challenged.

Definitions

  1. Fat.

    • [T]he chunky Mr. Ackerman took to the stage. First he told fat jokes. . . . "I'm not fat. I'm gravitationally challenged."
    • In America fat is the new f-word—instead, it's nutritionally endowed, or person of mass, or gravitationally challenged.
  2. Of a person, having a poor sense of balance

    Of a person, having a poor sense of balance; subject to intervals of dizziness.

    • Consider that the person asking is Mr. Bean, the diminutive, awkward, gravitationally challenged, accident-prone incarnation served up by Rowan Atkinson.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for gravitationally challenged. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA