bellied

Adjective

bellied (not comparable)

1. Having a large or prominent belly.
   • There was, also, among the company a mannered, bellied person called Alured Castorley […]1932, Rudyard Kipling, “Dayspring Mishandled”, in Limits and Renewals
2. (in-compounds) Having a belly of a specified type.
   • full-bellied knife
   • round-bellied vase
3. Swollen, bulging, or billowing; bellying.
   • 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
4. (figuratively) Overblown, exaggerated.
   • […] 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