Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A protuberant belly.
- noun A person having a protuberant belly.
- noun The lake-trout, Salvelinus (Cristivomer) namaycush.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A protuberant belly.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a bulbous stove in which wood or coal is burned
- noun slang for a paunch
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Examples
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Socrates had a pot-belly, a weird walk, swivelling eyes and hairy hands.
Socrates ? a man for our times Bettany Hughes 2010
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* If he really came from a monkey, do you think Benjamin Franklin could have discovered electricity, invented the pot-belly stove, bifocals, the odometer, and catheters, and convinced really attractive French ladies to hit that, even though he was past 70 and sporting a skullet?
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To my shock, every athlete in the Scottish games seemed to be about 200 pounds overweight, competing more with the pot-belly of Big Daddy see picture below of really fat Floridians in kilts, than shot put, log tossing, and the other Medieval sports featured at the event.
Karin Kloosterman: A Quick and Dirty 5 Part Carbon Diet Karin Kloosterman 2010
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To my shock, every athlete in the Scottish games seemed to be about 200 pounds overweight, competing more with the pot-belly of Big Daddy see picture below of really fat Floridians in kilts, than shot put, log tossing, and the other Medieval sports featured at the event.
Karin Kloosterman: A Quick and Dirty 5 Part Carbon Diet Karin Kloosterman 2010
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To my shock, every athlete in the Scottish games seemed to be about 200 pounds overweight, competing more with the pot-belly of Big Daddy see picture below of really fat Floridians in kilts, than shot put, log tossing, and the other Medieval sports featured at the event.
Karin Kloosterman: A Quick and Dirty 5 Part Carbon Diet Karin Kloosterman 2010
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* If he really came from a monkey, do you think Benjamin Franklin could have discovered electricity, invented the pot-belly stove, bifocals, the odometer, and catheters, and convinced really attractive French ladies to hit that, even though he was past 70 and sporting a skullet?
Christian Nation 2010
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The other trainer was thin but with an incongruous pot-belly.
Swimming Lessons 2010
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To my shock, every athlete in the Scottish games seemed to be about 200 pounds overweight, competing more with the pot-belly of Big Daddy see picture below of really fat Floridians in kilts, than shot put, log tossing, and the other Medieval sports featured at the event.
Karin Kloosterman: A Quick and Dirty 5 Part Carbon Diet Karin Kloosterman 2010
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Thinking about it, even now, you get all mush-faced and teary-eyed, like half a hundred other springtime grumblers who sit there running their hands around a Gumbied pot-belly, telling good, round lies, one after another.
To Honor Baseball's Return, Here's as Great an Opening Day Piece as You Will Find 2010
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To my shock, every athlete in the Scottish games seemed to be about 200 pounds overweight, competing more with the pot-belly of Big Daddy see picture below of really fat Floridians in kilts, than shot put, log tossing, and the other Medieval sports featured at the event.
Karin Kloosterman: A Quick and Dirty 5 Part Carbon Diet Karin Kloosterman 2010
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