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单词 pot belly
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pot bellyn.adj.

Brit. /ˈpɒt ˌbɛli/, /ˌpɒt ˈbɛli/, U.S. /ˈpɑt ˌbɛli/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: pot n.1, belly n.
Etymology: < pot n.1 + belly n. Compare earlier pot-bellied adj.
A. n.
1. A swollen or protuberant stomach.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > front > belly or abdomen > [noun] > types of
just wombc1400
paunch?a1425
gorbelly1519
barrel-belly1561
grand paunch1569
pack paunch1582
swag-paunch1611
swag bellya1616
bottle belly1655
paunch-gut1683
pot belly1696
gundy-gut1699
tun-bellya1704
panter1706
corporation1753
pancheon1804
poda1825
bow window1840
pot1868
pus-gut1935
beer belly1942
pussy-gut1949
pot-gut1951
Molson muscle1967
beer gut1976
1696 G. G. Lansdowne She-gallants ii. i. 15 A great pot Belly, a broad Back, and huge Legs and Arms, enough to squeeze one to pieces.
1741 Mem. Martinus Scriblerus 41 in A. Pope Wks. II He will find himself a forked stradling Animal, with bandy legs, a short neck, a dun hide, and a pot-belly.
?1775 Woman's Wit 68 Foote, the Player and Mimick, seeing a Man who had very thin Arms and Legs, with a pot Belly, said he looked like a Greyhound that had got the Dropsy.
1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 297 It..gives that projecting rotundity to the abdomen which is vulgarly distinguished by the name of Pot-Belly.
1860 R. W. Emerson Fate in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 8 A dome of brow denotes one thing; a pot-belly another; a squint, a pug-nose..betray character.
1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. III. 488 The pot-belly of rickety children is caused..by dilatation of the bowels with undigested food.
1936 M. R. Anand Coolie iii. 135 A merchant, with an enormous turban on his head, muslins on his pot belly, and gold-worked slippers on his feet.
1987 Today's Health Apr. 13/2 Well-established eating habits, built around high fat, high calorie foods, are going to be hard to change. That's why so many young male executives find they're developing a pot belly.
1996 Observer 31 Mar. 22/2 (advt.) These abdominal exercises are so effective in getting rid of a pot belly and slimming your midsection.
2. A pot-bellied person.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > front > belly or abdomen > [noun] > types of > person having
gorrel1398
dregbaly1483
gorbelly1530
swag belly1611
quake-belly1622
pot-gut1725
pot belly1847
pus-gut1935
beer belly1942
1847 H. Melville Omoo ii. lxviii. 322 The first husband of the present queen was commonly known in the court circles, as ‘Pot Belly.’ He carried the greater part of his person before him, to be sure.
1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust I. v. 106 The bald-pate pot-belly I have noted.
1934 E. Pound Eleven New Cantos xli. 52 And one of the potbellies says: will come in for 12 million.
1989 W. Deverell Mindfield 51 They were Yanks, potbellies. Maybe the Gambinos from the Apple.
B. adj. (attributive).
1. Designating a kind of domestic stove made in the shape of a barrel. Cf. pot-bellied adj. 1.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > that which or one who heats > [noun] > a device for heating or warming > devices for heating buildings, rooms, etc. > stove > types of stove
bath-stove1591
pech1591
stewpot1688
kitchen range1733
cockle1775
copper-hole1785
Franklin stove1787
kitchen stove1795
gas stove1818
calefactor1831
thermometer-stove1838
Vesta1843
airtight1844
ship-hearth1858
base-burner1861
wood-stove1875
box1878
tortoise1884
wood-burner1901
Quebec heater1903
pot belly1920
cosy stove1926–7
oil stove1934
paraffin stove1995
1920 Bridgeport (Connecticut) Telegram 4 Dec. 26/1 Wanted to buy—Large pot-belly stove. Suitable for heating garage.
1946 Jrnl. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 41 12 Even a group of men sitting around an old pot-belly stove in a back-woods general store could be made to see the fallacy in the ‘Literary Digest’ Poll.
1976 Morecambe Guardian 7 Dec. 33/2 (advt.) Wood burning or coke burning stove (pot belly type) preferably with chimney.
2005 Manly (Austral.) Daily (Nexis) 3 Sept. There's a separate dining room off the main living room of around 27sq m and includes a delightful pot-belly stove.
2. Designating or relating to the Vietnamese pot-bellied pig (see pot-bellied pig n. at pot-bellied adj. Compounds).
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1988 Frederick (Maryland) Post 5 Apr. b2/6 The farm also celebrated the birth of Vietnamese Pot Belly pigs.
1993 Town & Country Sept. 88/2 Treats exotic animals (reptiles, pot-belly pigs) and even offers acupuncture.
2001 Washington Post (Nexis) 10 July c10 If you can provide the right environment for such a pig, knowing that he or she will get big (and very big if he's not a purebred Vietnam village pot-belly type), then go ahead.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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