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Word Meanings - POT-BELLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A protuberant belly.

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  • PROTUBERANT
    Prominent, or excessively prominent; bulging beyond the surrounding or adjacent surface; swelling; as, a protuberant joint; a protuberant eye. -- Pro*tu"ber*ant*ly, adv.
  • BELLYCHEER
    Good cheer; viands. "Bellycheer and banquets." Rowlands. "Loaves and bellycheer." Milton.
  • BELLYBAND
    A band of canvas, to strengthen a sail. (more info) 1. A band that passes under the belly of a horse and holds the saddle or harness in place; a girth. 2. A band of flannel or other cloth about the belly.
  • BELLYFUL
    As much as satisfies the appetite. Hence: A great abundance; more than enough. Lloyd. King James told his son that he would have his bellyful of parliamentary impeachments. Johnson.
  • BELLY
    The hollow part of a curved or bent timber, the convex part of which is the back. Belly doublet, a doublet of the 16th century, hanging down so as to cover the belly. Shak. -- Belly fretting, the chafing of a horse's belly with a girth. Johnson.
  • BELLYCHEAT
    An apron or covering for the front of the person. Beau. & Fl.
  • BELLY-PINCHED
    Pinched with hunger; starved. "The belly-pinched wolf." Shak.
  • BELLY-GOD
    One whose great pleasure it is to gratify his appetite; a glutton; an epicure.
  • BELLYBOUND
    Costive; constipated.
  • BELLYACHE
    Pain in the bowels; colic.
  • REDBELLY
    The char.
  • POT-BELLY
    A protuberant belly.
  • SAWBELLY
    The alewife.
  • GOR-BELLY
    A prominent belly; a big-bellied person.
  • WHITEBELLY
    The American widgeon, or baldpate. The prairie chicken.
  • SPECKLED-BELLY
    The gadwall.
  • SWAGBELLY
    Any large tumor developed in the abdomen, and neither fluctuating nor sonorous. Dunglison. (more info) 1. A prominent, overhanging belly. Smollett.

 

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