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Bellied

//ˈbɛlid// adj, verb

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Having a large or prominent belly. not-comparable

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

  2. 2
    Having a belly of a specified type. in-compounds, not-comparable

    "full-bellied knife"

  3. 3
    Swollen, bulging, or billowing; bellying. not-comparable

    "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,"

  4. 4
    Overblown, exaggerated. figuratively, not-comparable

    "[…] the choicest of his friends, Such as would blush to talk such serious follies, Or back such bellied commendations […]"

Adjective
  1. 1
    having a belly wordnet
  2. 2
    curving outward wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of belly form-of, participle, past

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