bellied

UK /ˈbɛlid/ US /ˈbɛlid/
adj 4

Definitions

adj

1

Having a large or prominent belly.

There was, also, among the company a mannered, bellied person called Alured Castorley […]

2

Having a belly of a specified type.

full-bellied knife

round-bellied vase

3

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.

4

Overblown, exaggerated.

[…] the choicest of his friends, Such as would blush to talk such serious follies, Or back such bellied commendations […]

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