1. A bowed string instrument of the violin family, pitched below the viola, distinguished by a lower bout so generously curved that luthiers have, historically, simply stopped apologizing for it.
2.colloq. Wide through the hips and built to resonate from the waist down. Viewed in profile, she is the instrument that made luthiers stop treating generous lower bouts as a problem to be corrected and start treating them as the specification.
In a sentence:
"The soloist set a thiccc cello under the stage lights at Carnegie Hall and the back of the instrument caught the raking glow like it had been waiting specifically for that moment. The viola section quietly reconsidered its life choices."
Etymology:
Shortened from violoncello, itself from Italian violone ('large viol') with the diminutive suffix -cello, yielding, paradoxically, 'small large viol.' First attested in English c. 1876. The Italians named it for what it shrank from, not what it became. They had not seen the lower bout.
Yes. Cello was admitted to the Thiccctionary on June 18, 2026 and filed in the Musical Instruments section. The ruling on file: Admitted. Every subject in the catalogue is judged on its curves, not its size.
What makes a cello thiccc?
Wide through the hips and built to resonate from the waist down. Viewed in profile, she is the instrument that made luthiers stop treating generous lower bouts as a problem to be corrected and start treating them as the specification.
Is "thiccc" spelled with three c's?
Yes. The Thiccctionary house spelling uses three c's, distinguishing the editorial register from the colloquial "thicc" (two c's) and standard "thick" (one c).
