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potbelly

noun

Etymology

From pot + belly.

  1. derived from *bʰelǵʰ-✻ — “to swell, blow up”
  2. inherited from *balgiz✻
  3. inherited from *balgi✻
  4. inherited from bielġ — “bag, pouch, bulge”
  5. inherited from bely
  6. compounded as potbelly — “pot + belly”

Definitions

  1. A large, protruding, or swollen abdomen

    A large, protruding, or swollen abdomen; a paunch.

  2. Ellipsis of potbelly stove.

  3. Ellipsis of Vietnamese pot-bellied pig.

The neighborhood

Derived

potbellied, potbelly pig

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for potbelly. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA