swag bellyn.
1.
a. (as two words) A pendulous abdomen.
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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
a1616 [see swag-bellied adj. at Derivatives].
1632 R. Sherwood Dict. in R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues (new ed.) A swag bellie, ventre à poulaine.
a1656 J. Ussher Ann. World (1658) vi. 485 He was of an horrid look, short stature, swag belly.
1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 151 Great over-grown dignitaries and rectors,..dragging along great swag bellies.
1820 W. Tooke tr. Lucian Lucian of Samosata I. 469 A multitude of wealthy usurers, all pale with swag-bellies.
1909 Chambers's Jrnl. Aug. 541/2 He is rather a decent Christian, with a swag belly and a jolly face.
b. Pathology. = physconia n.
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1853 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 9) Swagbelly, physconia.
2. (with hyphen or as one word) A person having a pendulous abdomen.
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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
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Lifrelofre, a huffesnuffe, swag-bellie, puffe-bag.
1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 5th Bk. Wks. Pantagr. Prognost. 239 So many Swag-bellies and Puff-bags.
1712 P. Motteux 2nd Pt. Don Quixote (1749) IV. xliii. 64 Confound thee..for an eternal proverb-voiding swag-belly.
1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.) Swag-belly, i.q. Sludge-guts.
Derivatives
swag-bellied adj. having a ‘swag belly’ or pendulous paunch.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > front > belly or abdomen > [adjective] > types of
great-wombedc1325
wombedc1325
big-bellied?c1475
gorbellieda1529
tunnisha1529
bellieda1533
gorbelly1532
tun-bellied1551
out-bellied1570
paunch-bellied1586
paunchyc1586
big-bellied1592
round-bellied1606
gutty1607
tun-gutted1607
ventripotent1611
swag-bellieda1616
tun-grown1628
bottle-bellied1646
pot-bellied1647
belly-mountained1654
pauncheda1657
sag-bellied1665
barrel-bellied1694
ventricous1702
poke pudding1705
paunch-gutted1726
pot-gutted1731
paunchfula1763
pottle-bellied1777
tunnified1806
tun-likea1813
shad-bellied1832
ventricose1843
bow-windowed1849
bloated-bellied1871
barrel-stomached1884
stomachy1888
well-stomached1896
jelly-bellied1899
narrow-gutted1903
pus-gutted1915
great-stomached1944
a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) ii. iii. 72 Your Dane, your Germaine, and your swag-bellied Hollander. View more context for this quotation
1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. ix. 62 This swag-bellied doctor.
1822 W. Irving Bracebridge Hall II. 316 He saw a swag-bellied cloud rolling over the mountains.
1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. x. i. 573 Swag-bellied, short of wind.
1899 F. T. Bullen Way Navy 49 A grimy, swag-bellied drudge of a steam collier.
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