bellied
/ˈbɛlid/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.71 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
verb
simple past and past participle of belly
Example Sentences
- "There was, also, among the company a mannered, bellied person called Alured Castorley […]"
- "full-bellied knife"
- "round-bellied vase"
- "But one guy was still yelping: a big-bellied biker, with a long, black beard that hung halfway down his bloated gut."
- "He was bag-bellied and thin-legged and his wooly eyebrows tilted up to a point in the middle of his forehead that was philosophical and almost comically sad."
- "1819, Joseph Rodman Drake, “The American Flag” in The Culprit Fay, and Other Poems, New York: Van Norden & King, 1847, p. 91, Flag of the seas! on ocean wave Thy stars shall glitter o’er the brave; When death, careering on the gale, Sweeps darkly round the bellied sail,"