bellied
adj/ˈbɛlid/
1
Having a large or prominent belly.
- There was, also, among the company a mannered, bellied person called Alured Castorley […]1932, Rudyard Kipling, “Dayspring Mishandled”, in Limits and Renewals:
2
In compounds Having a belly of a specified type.
- full-bellied knife
- round-bellied vase
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- But one guy was still yelping: a big-bellied biker, with a long, black beard that hung halfway down his bloated gut.1997, Alejandro Grattan-Domínguez, Breaking even:
- He was bag-bellied and thin-legged and his wooly eyebrows tilted up to a point in the middle of his forehead that was philosophical and almost comically sad.2010, Jaimy Gordon, “Third Race: Pelter”, in Lord of Misrule, Kingston, N.Y.: McPherson & Company, →ISBN, page 200:
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Swollen, bulging, or billowing; bellying.
- 1819, Joseph Rodman Drake, “The American Flag” in The Culprit Fay, and Other Poems, New York: Van Norden & King, 1847, p. 91, Flag of the seas! on ocean wave Thy stars shall glitter o’er the brave; When death, careering on the gale, Sweeps darkly round the bellied sail,
- We heard the swarming streets, the noisy mills; Saw sooty foundries full of glare and gloom, Great bellied chimneys tipped with tongues of flame, Quiver in smoky heat.1857, Alexander Smith, “A Boy’s Poem”, in City Poems, Boston: Ticknor & Fields, pages 98–99:
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- Hand-like rushed the vintage; we strung the bellied skins Plump, and at the sealing the Youth’s voice rose:1883, George Meredith, “Phoebus with Admetus”, in Poems and Lyrics of the Joy of the Earth, London: Macmillan, page 74:
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Figuratively Overblown, exaggerated.
- […] the choicest of his friends, Such as would blush to talk such serious follies, Or back such bellied commendations […]c. 1610, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, Philaster, Act I, Scene 1:
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29 terms
bare-bellied Joe, barrel-bellied, beer-bellied, black-bellied plover, black-bellied sandgrouse, black-bellied wren, fire-bellied, fire-bellied newt, fire-bellied toad, fish-bellied, narrow-bellied seahorse, ochre-bellied boobook, potbellied, pot-bellied, red-bellied woodpecker, rufous-bellied kookaburra, shad-bellied, slop-bellied, unbellied, violet-bellied hummingbird, white-bellied nothura, white-bellied pitohui, white-bellied rat, white-bellied sea eagle, yellow-bellied, yellow-bellied fairy-fantail, yellow-bellied fantail, yellow-bellied sapsucker, yellow-bellied sea snake