Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a belly (of the kind indicated in composition): as, big-bellied; pot-bellied.
- In botany, ventricose; swelling out in the middle.
- In anatomy, having a swelling fleshy part, or belly, as a muscle.
- Rounded; bulging.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having (such) a belly; puffed out; -- used in composition.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective in combination Having some
specific type ofbelly . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
belly .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective curving outward
- adjective having a belly; often used in combination
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Examples
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The visitor, we're told, gazing at the soft-bellied male race enthusiasts in the stands, would be horrified and bellow (if he could indeed speak): "My sons, my sons, why have you forsaken me?"
Testosterone Put to the Test Dave Shiflett 2010
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A similar economy enlivens other works, such as Shoki Sleeping, which captures a tub-bellied folk deity, boots on, snoozing.
The Sound Of One Hand: Paintings Of Zen Master Hakuin Showcased In New Exhbition (PHOTOS) Clay Chiles 2010
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January 14th, 2010 at 5: 47 pm tombaker says: but molly – what will we do about the star-bellied sneeches?
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Eddie's Wheels Eddie's Wheels recently made its first chair for a 150-lb pot-bellied pig named Bacon, owned by a retired butcher in Peru, Mass.
Pets With Wheels 2010
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Think about it this way: pretend for a moment that you are a beer-bellied, slope-faced, slack-jawed, thick-necked, trailer-park-dwelling hominid from the jungles of Appalachia, with a high-school equivalency degree and career skills chiefly in plumbing and siring children.
Think Progress » Fifteen States Have Polluter-Driven Resolutions To Deny Climate Threat 2010
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Ex-con Mr. Hack who advocates assassinating police officers is in reality a yellow bellied, sap sucking coward with a yellow stripe down is back a foot wide.
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Paul often passed out at the end of our epic nights bellied up at the bar.
Five Stops on Line 2, Ch 1: Qalb elouz Jennifer Solheim 2011
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Their flesh wasted by hunger, they were hollow bellied, their ribs protruding.
Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011
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Clark would grow to despise the Vichy generals he dealt with in North Africa, giving them a private code in memos to Ike: YBSAS for “yellow bellied so and so.”
Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011
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They recently made their first chair for a pot-bellied pig named Bacon, owned by a retired butcher in Peru, Mass.
A New Set of Wheels Can Improve a Dog's Life, Too Timothy Aeppel 2010
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