barrel-bellied
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.70 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Two other hunters—next to him in presence of mind and energy—threw their arms round the great barrel-bellied infant, and hoisted him into the boat, which nearly capsized with the weight and struggle."
- "That showed what the Abbot was, besides being one of those bulging with importance barrel-bellied small men with an outsize in red doormat beards, which must have kept his face red-hot."
- "Yes, that Boris Johnson, the tousle-haired, barrel-bellied engineer of the UK's exit from the EU."
- "But how much more galling for a woman whose trademark throughout her long career has been her elegance, her age-defying looks and her meticulous grooming to find out that the Gloria “lookalike” who spearheaded the scam is revealed on CCTV footage to be a barrel-bellied old bat in drawstring trousers and gutties."
- "Another pleasure earlier in summer is to watch the barrel-bellied gravid females warming their unborn embryos, which emerge directly as babies rather than as eggs (hence the species’ old name, viviparous lizard)."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
more barrel-bellied (comparative)
most barrel-bellied (superlative)