How to Be a Portly Gentleman

The word portly is formal, it's posh and a little bit old-fashioned. But that's exactly why people sometimes use it to make something seem funny. A word that's definitely not posh and upper class is fatso. It's quite a humorous derogatory term or word that you should only use with people you know well.

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