bellied

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Two legs is gone and it's squat-bellied, and smokes if the wind gives it a chance; but I wouldn't trade it for a new one.

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  1. Having a belly (of the kind indicated in composition): as, big-bellied; pot-bellied.
  2. In botany, ventricose; swelling out in the middle.
  3. In anatomy, having a swelling fleshy part, or belly, as a muscle.
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  • ‘The Church big-bellied, purple-gowned The Bishop always comes,’ ventured Belle mildly. —  Death of a Ghost - Margery Allingham - Campion 06
  • Sort of a pot-bellied, spraddle-legged eagle with sparks coming out of his head was the thunderbird. —  147 - Rock Sinister
  • But this is Drenai land and to me he is just another pot-bellied savage who couldn't wipe his arse without a Drenai map tattooed on his thigh Pellin's smile faded as he saw Druss clap the other sentry on the shoulder and move on towards him. —  David A
  • A gluttonous race of Jutes and Angles, capable of no grand combinations; lumbering about in pot-bellied equanimity; not dreaming of heroic toil and silence and endurance, such as leads to the high places of this Universe, and the golden mountain-tops where dwell the Spirits of the Dawn. —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia
  • Might be called a perceptibly pot-bellied plain, with more propriety; flat country, slightly puffed up;--in shape not steeper than the mould of an immense tea-saucer would be. —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia
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