What Counts as Thiccc? An Editorial Guide

People keep asking. Some are browsing the archive and want to know why one entry made the cut and another didn't. Some are submitting suggestions and want to know what we'll accept. Some have noticed our submission form filters out roughly half of what gets sent in.

Here's the editorial guide. It is not exhaustive. It will get amended.

Revised October 2026. The May edition of this guide admitted cement mixers, grain silos and anything of sufficient girth. The Board has since adopted the curves standard and retired the entries that relied on size alone. This is the guide as it now stands.

The first rule: things, not people

This is the only rule that is absolute. Thiccctionary documents inanimate objects, plus a short list of famously round animals (below). We do not, will not, and have not described any human being as thiccc on this site. Not as a joke. Not as homage. Not even as a compliment.

The whole site is a redirect: it takes a category of language people often misuse against women and points it at pears and cargo planes. If you submit a person, the submission gets discarded.

The second rule: curves, not size

Big is a measurement. Thiccc is a silhouette. A cruise ship is large, but it is a long rectangle with a buffet, and it is not thiccc. A pear is small, and it is the most thiccc object in the produce aisle, because nearly all of it is bottom. The Board asks one question of every candidate: is the shape doing the work, or only the tonnage?

Heavy does not count either. Lead bricks, steel ingots and the anchor of an aircraft carrier are dense, and density is not a figure. The Airbus Beluga qualifies not because it is enormous but because it swells up and out like a whale that has heard good news.

The third rule: the photograph has to agree

The curve must be visible to someone who has never heard the word. If a stranger looks at the plate and asks "wait, which part is thiccc?", the entry has not earned its slot. A double bass answers before the question is finished.

The fourth rule: admire, never roast

The joke punches at the language, not at the object. The staff admires a pear the way the internet admires a figure, in full dictionary register, and the pear is always in on it. Read the etymology section of any entry. That is where the warmth lives.

What gets in

• Produce with a bottom-heavy build (pears, peaches, butternut squash, avocados)
• Vehicles with hips (the Volkswagen Beetle, fender-flared muscle cars, dually pickups, the Beluga)
• Instruments with a waist (cellos, double basses, tubas)
• Vessels and housewares that swell (amphorae, piggy banks, matryoshka dolls, round-bottom flasks)
• Pastries and dumplings that rose to the occasion
• A short allowlist of famously round animals (the hippopotamus, the manatee, the walrus, and a few others the Board has argued about at length)

What doesn't

• Anything depicting a human, real or implied
• Size for its own sake (cement mixers, silos, rockets, covered bridges, aircraft carriers)
• Boxes. If the outline is a rectangle, the answer is no, however much it weighs
• Animals off the allowlist, however round the individual
• Invented names that lean on a body word to do the curve's job
• Cartoon characters or illustrated subjects (we work in photographs)
• Entries that exist only to make a sex joke (the brand is the dictionary, not the punchline)

The submission test

If you're submitting an entry via the form, ask yourself four things:

1. Is this a real, photographable object?
2. Is the curve visible to someone who has never heard the word?
3. Would it still be thiccc at the size of a pear? (If only the tonnage is impressive, it fails.)
4. Is the joke about the object, or about a person we're using the object to reference?

Four yeses and you're in the running. Send it.

Closing note

This guide may seem long for a satirical dictionary. It's intentional. The entries are short and the brand is silly precisely because the editorial line is firm. The two are connected.

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