|
|
Definition of Potbellied
1. Adjective. Having a large belly.
Similar to: Fat
Derivative terms: Abdominousness, Paunch, Paunchiness
Definition of Potbellied
1. a. Having a protuberant belly, like the bottom of a pot.
Definition of Potbellied
1. Adjective. having a potbelly ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Potbellied
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Potbellied
Literary usage of Potbellied
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Greatest Works of the Greatest Authors, Ancient and Modern (1894)
"for with him they are gouty in feet, potbellied, thick-logged, and extravagantly
fat; but with me they are thin and wasp-like, and annoying to their enemies ..."
2. History of Friedrich II of Prussia: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1897)
"A gluttonous race of Jutes and Angles, capable of no grand combinations ; lumbering
about in potbellied equanimity ; not dreaming of heroic toil and silence ..."
3. History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1858)
"... lumbering about in potbellied equanimity; not dreaming of heroic toil and
silence and endurance, such as leads to the high places of this Universe, ..."
4. Past and Present: Chartism. New Ed., Complete in One Volume by Thomas Carlyle (1848)
"... no romance-hero with haughty eyes, Apollo-lip, and gesture like ' the herald
Mercury ; a plain almost gross, bag-cheeked, potbellied ' Lancashire man, ..."
Other Resources:
