swagbelly

noun 3

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noun

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 […].

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

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

3

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

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