bacon-fed

obsolete Fat and of a greasy complexion. Used by the character Falstaff in Shakespeare's Henry IV, referring to the "bacon-fed knaves" whom he is about to rob. Those slovenly, bacon-fed men who feed their faces till near bursting fill me with disgust. There go the bacon-fed magistrates while we ordinary folk struggle to survive. I had always known Edmund to be bacon-fed and rotund, so I was surprised to see him looking so gaunt at Christmastime.