bellied
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bellied (not comparable)
- Having a large or prominent belly.
- 1932, Rudyard Kipling, “Dayspring Mishandled”, in Limits and Renewals[1]:
- There was, also, among the company a mannered, bellied person called Alured Castorley […]
- (in combination) Having a belly of a specified type.
- 1997, Alejandro Grattan-Domínguez, Breaking even:
- But one guy was still yelping: a big-bellied biker, with a long, black beard that hung halfway down his bloated gut.
- 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,[2]
- 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,
- 1857, Alexander Smith, “A Boy’s Poem”, in City Poems[3], Boston: Ticknor & Fields, pages 98–99:
- 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.
- 1883, George Meredith, “Phoebus with Admetus”, in Poems and Lyrics of the Joy of the Earth[4], London: Macmillan, page 74:
- Hand-like rushed the vintage; we strung the bellied skins
Plump, and at the sealing the Youth’s voice rose:
- 1819, Joseph Rodman Drake, “The American Flag” in The Culprit Fay, and Other Poems, New York: Van Norden & King, 1847, p. 91,[2]
- (figuratively) Overblown, exaggerated.
- c. 1610, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, Philaster[5], Act I, Scene 1:
- […] the choicest of his friends,
Such as would blush to talk such serious follies,
Or back such bellied commendations […]
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bellied
- simple past and past participle of belly