bellied

adjective

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Pronunciation: /ˈbɛlid/

Having a large or prominent belly.
“There was, also, among the company a mannered, bellied person called Alured Castorley […]”
Having a belly of a specified type.
“full-bellied knife”
“round-bellied vase”
Swollen, bulging, or billowing; bellying.
“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.”
Overblown, exaggerated.
“[…] the choicest of his friends, Such as would blush to talk such serious follies, Or back such bellied commendations […]”