Meanings
- not comparableHaving 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 - in compoundsnot comparableHaving a belly of a specified type.
full-bellied knife
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round-bellied vase
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 evenHe 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 - not comparableSwollen, 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,
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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 98–99Hand-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 - figurativelynot comparableOverblown, 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
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of belly
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivecurving outward
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Finnish vatsakas, mahakas
- vatsakashaving a large or prominent belly
- mahakashaving a large or prominent belly
- -vatsainenhaving a belly of a specified type
- pulleaswollen, bulging, or billowing
- pullistunutswollen, bulging, or billowing
- paisuteltuoverblown, exaggerated
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