barrel-bellied

comparative more barrel-bellied · superlative most barrel-bellied

1. Having a large prominent belly reminiscent of a barrel.

   Yes, that Boris Johnson, the tousle-haired, barrel-bellied engineer of the UK's exit from the EU.

   2016 July 14, “Boris Johnson: How Britain's new foreign secretary has insulted the world”, in bbc.co.uk

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   Two other hunters—next to him in presence of mind and energy—threw their arms round the great barrel-bellied infant, and hoisted him into the boat, which nearly capsized with the weight and struggle.

   1850 August 3, Charles Dickens, Household Words, volume 1, page 446

   That showed what the Abbot was, besides being one of those bulging with importance barrel-bellied small men with an outsize in red doormat beards, which must have kept his face red-hot.

   1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 40

   But how much more galling for a woman whose trademark throughout her long career has been her elegance, her age-defying looks and her meticulous grooming to find out that the Gloria “lookalike” who spearheaded the scam is revealed on CCTV footage to be a barrel-bellied old bat in drawstring trousers and gutties.

   2016 August 20, Lindy McDowell, “Which was worse: the robbery or someone thinking that woman was dead ringer for you?”, in Belfast Telegraph, archived from the original on 25 Apr 2023

   Another pleasure earlier in summer is to watch the barrel-bellied gravid females warming their unborn embryos, which emerge directly as babies rather than as eggs (hence the species’ old name, viviparous lizard).

   2020 September 15, Mark Cocker, “Country diary: appreciating the minutiae of a lizard’s life”, in The Guardian