1. A fresh Italian cheese of Southern Apulian origin, consisting of a taut mozzarella shell packed to near-structural-failure with stracciatella and cream; the exterior presents as composed and professional while the interior has made entirely different plans.
2.colloq. A dairy item that does not reveal its full commitment until the knife goes in. She sits on the plate like she has nothing to prove, and then the cream situation happens.
In a sentence:
"The chef plated a thiccc burrata at the Williamsburg tasting menu, flanked by stone fruit and a drizzle of something from a small bottle. It held its shape through the photo, then confessed everything."
Etymology:
From Italian burrata, derived from burro ('butter'), from Late Latin butyrum, from Greek boutyron ('cow cheese'). First produced in Puglia, early 20th century, by a cheesemaker who apparently decided that mozzarella was not doing enough with its life.
The filing is a personality profile of a cheese. The structural fact is a mozzarella shell packed to near-structural-failure with cream. That is the entry. Admitted.
Yes. Burrata was admitted to the Thiccctionary on August 29, 2026 and filed in the Foods of Substance section. The ruling on file: Admitted under protest. Every subject in the catalogue is judged on its curves, not its size.
What makes a burrata thiccc?
A dairy item that does not reveal its full commitment until the knife goes in. She sits on the plate like she has nothing to prove, and then the cream situation happens.
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).
Sources
Photograph by Max Griss, via Unsplash. Catalogued under plate XCIII.
