bellied

adj

1. (not-comparable)Having a large or prominent belly.

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

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

   “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.”

3. (not-comparable)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.”

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

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

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

verb

1. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of belly