The Collaborative International Dictionary
Big-bellied \Big"-bel`lied\, a. Having a great belly; as, a big-bellied man or flagon; advanced in pregnancy.
WordNet
adj. having a prominent belly [syn: great bellied]
Usage examples of "big-bellied".
Eika fleet sailed out of Rikin Sound before a fair wind, two hundred and twenty-three longships and forty-six knarrs, the big-bellied cargo ships that plied the northern seas.
As Dov settled into the purple velvet seat of a high-backed oak chair, Aurore came gliding in with a tray bearing a demitasse service, a crystal brandy decanter, and two big-bellied snifters.
The sound of the podiatric impact had silenced a major-sport crowd, and a retired USMC flier who always came with petroleum-jelly samples he hawked to the knuckle-chapped crowds in the Nickerson stands told his cronies in a Brookline watering hole after the game that this Incandenza kid's first public punt had sounded just the way Rolling Thunder's big-bellied Berthas had sounded, the exaggerated WHUMP of incendiary tonnage, way larger than life.
The next batter, a big-bellied accountant, blooped a single just over the second baseman's head.
A robust, big-bellied man, a plainclothes copper from central casting, Milacki always had a good time.
The boat was broad-beamed and big-bellied and painted blue, with a stumpy mast forward, the sail loosely furled on a short boom.