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pot-belly en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of potbelly.
    alt of potbelly
    • Belching loudly, he sat back in his chair, letting his pot-belly protrude out so much that it touched the edge of his desk. 2008, James M. Campbell, One Night in the House of the Creepy Santas, →ISBN, page 58:
    • And as for his pot-belly, I will not be in service any longer to that pot. 2004, Deborah M. Sinnreich-Levi, Ian S. Laurie, Eustache Deschamps: Selected Poems, →ISBN:
    • Pañcika's iconography depicts him with a pot-belly, holding a skin purse (probably full of gold coins or jewels) and an offering bowl. 2007, Material Matters, →ISBN:

Forms

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pot-bellies Number=Plur lexicographic