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potbelly
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Word definitions for potbelly in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 a large, swollen, or protruding abdomen; a paunch 2 a potbelly stove
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ I walked over to the stove and put my hand near its potbelly . ▪ If he does have a potbelly , it is concealed within his well-tailored uniform.
Usage examples of potbelly.
He was shorter than Cali, his shoulders broad, his chest wide and narrowing into a slight potbelly just above his belt.
Tranh, a middle-aged, moonfaced man whose potbelly did not hamper in the slightest his energetic tumbling and pratfalls.
We gained two new acrobats, Kim and Kai, pretty Korean sisters aged seven and ten respectivelyorphans trained by another circusand Tranh, a middle-aged, moonfaced man whose potbelly did not hamper in the slightest his energetic tumbling and pratfalls.
My father there -- that portly unshaven gent with his thinning hair flying up and his front false tooth out, wearing a food-stained shirt and, at midafternoon, pajama bottoms, with a frayed belt cinched over his potbelly to bolster the elastic waistband.
And, unlike the wretched potbelly, the anthros could not digest such coarse fare, and they lost still more fluid in the watery shit that erupted from their backsides.
She saw the flitting, nervous forms of a couple of crowders, and even a potbelly, sitting squat on the trunk of a walnut.
To adapt to this lifestyle they had, like potbellies and gigantopithecines, developed huge energy-expensive guts to process their low-quality food and heavily engineered skulls capable of driving those huge jaws with their slablike teeth.
Her husband, also skinny (but with a blooming suburban potbelly just beginning to take shape), did a kind of helpless, panicky dance around her.
The bookshelves, the pill directories, the files, everything remained the same, only the Dutch tile stove in the corner, adorning the room with the gleam of its enamel, had turned into an old black potbelly with a charred pipe stuck in the wall and the floor around it covered with cinders.
Those raw boys prancing around on Hygeia would maintain that he's not as good as you because he's got a potbelly.
Some of them were scrawny, even displaying the ominous potbellies of malnutrition.
Both Matzerath and Jan Bronski looked so ridiculous verging on pathetic with their incipient potbellies that I was glad when, late in the afternoon, we returned to the bath houses and, having anointed our sunburns, slipped back into Sunday civilian dress.
After the first burst the black man had lowered his sights and was now shooting the captains in the abdomens, riddling hearts and lungs, livers and kidneys, bursting potbellies like paper sacks of water.
Two mechanics wandered in for an early morning beer, and not long after that three fatherly looking sergeants with potbellies and thinning hair and quartermaster insignia on their shoulders sat at a nearby table and started up a game of rummy.
Gone were the soot and dust, leaving only the clean, soft, glowing patina of age over everything - the pewter on the mantel, the cherry case of the grandfather clock, the black ironware on the hearth, the walnut stock and silver inlays of the long rifle on the wall, the tin potbellies of the kerosene lamps, the warm, worn maple of the chairs.