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pot-bellied

Adjective

Meaning

Having a protuberant belly, like the bottom of a pot.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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I had rather be a pot-bellied seed cowcumber, flung carelessly on a wood pile to ripen, than tew be an old bachelor. Josh Billings

There are a lot of women who live with pot-bellied pigs. Catherine Zeta-Jones

Even the pot-bellied abbot, who in the evening sits on his veranda with a paternal air, enjoying his coffee and picking the holes in his teeth, has in his innermost soul the makings of a Torquemada. José Maria Eça de Queiroz

When I see pot-bellied cyclists wearing the 'maillot jaune,' it appals me. Bernard Hinault

Before the days of electrically lighted road barriers, highway construction zones were marked at night by kerosene fired, pot-bellied torches. Source: Internet

And the very lucky first, as she told Friday Treat, for the ‘opening ceremony’ was a 72 year-old pot-bellied retiree, whom Maureen in the cause of this writer’s investigation, admitted was old enough to be a father to her own father. Source: Internet

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