swagbelly

plural swagbellies · alternative swag belly

1. A prominent, overhanging belly.

   Sancho Zancas […] in the picture, was represented as a person of a short stature, swag belly, and long spindle shanks […].

   1755, Miguel de Cervantes, translated by Tobias Smollett, Don Quixote, Volume 1, II.1

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   He swept his gaze over the short, squat throat, the hairy swagbelly, and the mighty breast, swelling in giant arches like twin shields.

   1935, Robert Ervin Howard, “The Haunter of the Pits”, in The Hour of the Dragon

   Synonyms: paunch

2. Hence, a person with such a belly.

   However, so many swagbellies and puff-bags will hardly go to St Hiacco, as there did in the year 524

   1694, Peter, transl. Motteux, chapter V, in Gargantua and Pantagruel, translation of La vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel by Rabelais, François, published c. 1564

3. medicineA distended abdomen, especially caused by a tumour or enlarged organ; a physconia.