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Having a large or prominent belly. quotations examples
There was, also, among the company a mannered, bellied person called Alured Castorley […]
1932, Rudyard Kipling, “Dayspring Mishandled”, in Limits and Renewals
(in combination) Having a belly of a specified type. quotations examples
But one guy was still yelping: a big-bellied biker, with a long, black beard that hung halfway down his bloated gut.
1997, Alejandro Grattan-Domínguez, Breaking even
Swollen, bulging, or billowing; bellying. quotations examples
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,
1819, Joseph Rodman Drake, “The American Flag” in The Culprit Fay, and Other Poems, New York: Van Norden & King, 1847, p. 91
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.
1857, Alexander Smith, “A Boy’s Poem”, in City Poems, Boston: Ticknor & Fields, pages 98–99
Hand-like rushed the vintage; we strung the bellied skinsPlump, and at the sealing the Youth’s voice rose:
1883, George Meredith, “Phoebus with Admetus”, in Poems and Lyrics of the Joy of the Earth, London: Macmillan, page 74
(figuratively) Overblown, exaggerated. quotations examples
[…] the choicest of his friends,Such as would blush to talk such serious follies,Or back such bellied commendations […]
c. 1610, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, Philaster, Act I, Scene 1
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