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marlowe221@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Did the person happen to have a southern accent?

As someone from the south, that’s what “healthy” means when used to describe an amount of something. It means “a lot”.

Also, if you say someone looks healthy you’re basically calling them fat, depending on tone of voice and inflection.

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Mr_Blott@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
South? Like Australia?

But yeah “a healthy amount” in UK English too means"a large amount of"

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- JackFrostNCola@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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- marlowe221@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Sorry, I meant south like Mississippi.
  
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Zahille7@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Similar to “generous” or “liberal”

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Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Yeah what I was going to say, too. “Healthy” in the context of an amount usually means “be quite generous”.

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