Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having a prominent overhanging belly.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having a prominent, overhanging belly.

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Examples

  • I have found thee, thou spongy swag-bellied minnow!

    Insult Me With Shakespeare, Please Dave Hurteau 2008

  • He was swag-bellied, sporting a little garden of gin-blossoms on his nose, and wearing a tropical shirt that hung almost to his knees.

    Duma Key King, Stephen, 1947- 2008

  • I learned it in England, where, indeed, they are most potent in potting: your Dane, your German, and your swag-bellied Hollander — Drink, ho! — are nothing to your English.

    Othello, the Moore of Venice 2004

  • Blackie was a swag-bellied man with a bushy black beard who wore his embroidered vest everywhere.

    Half Broke Horses Jeannette Walls 1994

  • Blackie was a swag-bellied man with a bushy black beard who wore his embroidered vest everywhere.

    Half Broke Horses Jeannette Walls 1994

  • Blackie was a swag-bellied man with a bushy black beard who wore his embroidered vest everywhere.

    Half Broke Horses Jeannette Walls 1994

  • The same thin-legged, swag-bellied children were scavenging among the pi-dogs.

    The Mask of Apollo Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1966

  • 'I ken naethin' aboot that, 'retorted the other, bringing his gaze down from the ceiling to rest upon the swag-bellied green bottle on the table beside him.

    Border Ghost Stories Howard Pease

  • I learned it in England, where indeed they are most potent in potting; your Dane, your German, and your swag-bellied Hollander, —drink, ho!

    Act II. Scene III. Othello, the Moor of Venice 1914

  • ” But Purdie’s face shone with rapture as he observed how severely the swag-bellied bookseller’s activity was tasked.

    Paras. 50-73 1909

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