bellied
Americanadjective
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having a belly, especially one of a specified kind, size, shape, condition, etc. (usually used in combination).
big-bellied.
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swelled or puffed out.
a bellied sail.
Etymology
Origin of bellied
late Middle English word dating back to 1425–75; see origin at belly, -ed 3
Example Sentences
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“To our first Kennedy Center musical!” a mother toasted her mocktail-sipping daughter the night I bellied up to the blue-tiled bar.
From Washington Post • Jan. 20, 2023
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.
From Salon • Nov. 28, 2022
She also was fed rotting capelin — described as soft bellied and smelling bad — despite the attending vet’s objections.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 16, 2021
Other attendees, more interested in topping the tale of the cowpoke on the next stool, were bellied up to the bar.
From New York Times • Sep. 26, 2018
“Are you all really so desperate that you’d stake everything on him? Why, he’s just a boy—a soft- bellied normal who knows next to nothing of our world!”
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
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