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  • adjective having a potbelly

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Examples

  • This cast iron creation was also called the potbellied stove.

    The Albert Lea Tribune 2008

  • In the past, "toasted skin syndrome" has occurred in workers whose jobs require being close to a heat source, including bakers and glass blowers, and, before central heating, in people who huddled near potbellied stoves to stay warm.

    'Toasted Skin Syndrome' Can Be Caused By Warm Laptops, Researchers Warn AP 2010

  • Growing up, we had bunnies, potbellied pigs, puppies, kitties, ducks, chickens … we had it all – (not all at once, of course) – and we also had the BEIGE carpet … oy vey!

    Best Bunny Story EVER « Bored Mommy 2009

  • “If you turn out to be a potbellied, middle-aged accountant, I will be supremely annoyed.”

    How to Flirt with A Naked Werewolf Molly Harper 2011

  • Now Father was potbellied and balding and fierce, and Jane was more than a little afraid of him.

    Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011

  • Now Father was potbellied and balding and fierce, and Jane was more than a little afraid of him.

    Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011

  • You don't often run across a hard-boiled literary PI who's potbellied, recovers from a beating by pigging out on baked beans and complains to a client's girlfriend that her clothes smell bad when what he's actually reacting to is the cologne she carefully picked out for the day.

    Unlikely gumshoe with grit Richard Lipez 2011

  • In the past, "toasted skin syndrome" has occurred in workers whose jobs require being close to a heat source, including bakers and glass blowers, and, before central heating, in people who huddled near potbellied stoves to stay warm.

    'Toasted Skin Syndrome' Can Be Caused By Warm Laptops, Researchers Warn AP 2010

  • You don't often run across a hard-boiled literary PI who's potbellied, recovers from a beating by pigging out on baked beans and complains to a client's girlfriend that her clothes smell bad when what he's actually reacting to is the cologne she carefully picked out for the day.

    Unlikely gumshoe with grit Richard Lipez 2011

  • Now Father was potbellied and balding and fierce, and Jane was more than a little afraid of him.

    Uprising Margaret Peterson Haddix 2011

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