i Register
In some senses, bellied is marked as figuratively. Watch for register when choosing this word.
adj
Having a large or prominent belly.
There was, also, among the company a mannered, bellied person called Alured Castorley […]
Having a belly of a specified type.
full-bellied knife
round-bellied vase
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.
Overblown, exaggerated.
[…] the choicest of his friends, Such as would blush to talk such serious follies, Or back such bellied commendations […]