bellied

[bel-eed]

adjective

1. having a belly, especially one of a specified kind, size, shape, condition, etc. (usually used in combination).

   big-bellied.

2. swelled or puffed out.

   a bellied sail.

Word History and Origins

Origin of bellied¹

late Middle English word dating back to 1425–75; belly, -ed ³

Example Sentences

“To our first Kennedy Center musical!” a mother toasted her mocktail-sipping daughter the night I bellied up to the blue-tiled bar.

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You can see some of the surprising new finds on the citizen science project Redmap, such as sightings of the tropical yellow bellied sea snake in Tasmanian waters.

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Later, at Nick’s Cove, a local restaurant with a pier that stretches over the bay, Elliott chatted with a woman who had bellied up to the bar to watch a baseball game.

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The sails are bellied out orange-gold in the early morning sunlight.

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He’d bellied up to the stove to warm himself after his first course.

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