BELLIED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bellied mean? 

• BELLIED (adjective)
  The adjective BELLIED has 2 senses:

1. having a belly; often used in combination

2. curving outward

  Familiarity information: BELLIED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BELLIED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having a belly; often used in combination

Similar:

big-bellied; great bellied (having a prominent belly)

Antonym:

bellyless (lacking a prominent belly)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Curving outward

Synonyms:

bellied; bellying; bulbous; bulging; bulgy; protuberant

Similar:

protrusive (thrusting outward)

 Context examples 

He bellied cautiously inside and was met by a warning snarl from the she-wolf.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The wind blew freshly from the east, with a very keen edge to it; and the great sail bellied roundly out, laying the vessel over until the water hissed beneath her lee bulwarks.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The skin roof, stretched tightly as a drumhead, I had thought, sagged and bellied with every gust; and innumerable interstices in the walls, not so tightly stuffed with moss as Maud had supposed, disclosed themselves.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The breeze blew, the sail bellied, over heeled the portly vessel, and away she plunged through the smooth blue rollers, amid the clang of the minstrels on her poop and the shouting of the black crowd who fringed the yellow beach.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)