Bellied

/ˈbɛlid/ · adjective

Meaning

Having a large or prominent belly..

Definitions by Sense

1. Having a large or prominent belly.
2. (in combination) Having a belly of a specified type.
3. Swollen, bulging, or billowing; bellying.
4. (figuratively) Overblown, exaggerated.
5. simple past and past participle of belly

Example Sentences

There was, also, among the company a mannered, bellied person called Alured Castorley […]

full-bellied knife

round-bellied vase

But one guy was still yelping: a big-bellied biker, with a long, black beard that hung halfway down his bloated gut.

He was bag-bellied and thin-legged and his wooly eyebrows tilted up to a point in the middle of his forehead that was philosophical and almost comically sad.

1819, Joseph Rodman Drake, “The American Flag” in The Culprit Fay, and Other Poems, New York: Van Norden & King, 1847, p. 91, 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,

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.

Hand-like rushed the vintage; we strung the bellied skins Plump, and at the sealing the Youth’s voice rose:

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