avoirdupois

av·oir·du·pois

 (ăv′ər-də-poiz′)

n.

1. Abbr. av. or avdp. Avoirdupois weight.

2. Informal Weight or heaviness, especially of a person.

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[Middle English avoir de pois, commodities sold by weight, alteration of Old French aveir de peis, goods of weight : aveir, avoir, to have (from Latin habēre; see able) + de, of (from Latin dē, from; see de-) + peis, pois, weight (from Vulgar Latin *pēsum, from Latin pēnsum, past participle of pendere, to hang; see (s)pen- in Indo-European roots).]

avoirdupois

(ˌævədəˈpɔɪz; ˌævwɑːdjuːˈpwɑː) or

avoirdupois weight

n

(Units) a system of weights used in many English-speaking countries. It is based on the pound, which contains 16 ounces or 7000 grains. 100 pounds (US) or 112 pounds (Brit) is equal to 1 hundredweight and 20 hundredweights equals 1 ton. Abbreviation: avdp or avoir

[C14: from Old French aver de peis goods of weight]

av•oir•du•pois

(ˌæv ər dəˈpɔɪz)

n.

1. avoirdupois weight.

2. Informal. bodily weight; heaviness: excess avoirdupois.

[1250–1300; Middle English avoir de pois literally, property of weight < Old French, =avoir (< Latin habēre to have) + de (< Latin dē) + pois (< Latin pēnsum) weight]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	avoirdupois - a system of weights based on the 16-ounce pound (or 7,000 grains) avoirdupois weight system of weights, weight - a system of units used to express the weight of something avoirdupois unit - any of the units of the avoirdupois system of weights
	2.	avoirdupois - excess bodily weight; "she disliked fatness in herself as well as in others" fatness, blubber, fat bodily property - an attribute of the body adiposeness, adiposity, fattiness - having the property of containing fat; "he recommended exercise to reduce my adiposity" abdominousness, paunchiness - the bodily property of a protruding belly greasiness, oiliness, oleaginousness - consisting of or covered with oil corpulency, fleshiness - more than average fatness steatopygia - an extreme accumulation of fat on the buttocks

avoirdupois

noun

Informal. The state or quality of being physically heavy:

heaviness, heftiness, massiveness, ponderosity, ponderousness, weight, weightiness.

Translations

avoirdupois

avoirdupois

n → Avoirdupois nt; (hum: = excess weight) → Fülligkeit f, → Üppigkeit f; there’s been an increase in her avoirdupois (hum) → sie ist ziemlich in die Breite gegangen