单词 | pot belly |
释义 | pot bellyn.adj. A. n. 1. A swollen or protuberant stomach. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). ΚΠ 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). < n.adj.1696 |
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