ventripotentadj.
/vɛnˈtrɪpətənt/ 1. Having a large abdomen; big-bellied.
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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
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Ventripotent, ventripotent, big-paunch, bellie-able, huge-guts.
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Ventripotent, big-paunch'd, belly-able, huge gutted.
1892 Harper's Mag. Sept. 504/2 His mind is obviously not of the finest fibre, nor his massive and ventripotent person either.
1905 J. Fitzmaurice-Kelly Cervantes in Eng. 5 The short, ventripotent rustic [= Sancho Panza].
2. Having great capacity of stomach; gluttonous.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > excessive consumption of food or drink > [adjective] > gluttonous
freckc950
egernec1200
gluttonous1340
glutterous1382
lecherous1480
pampereda1529
glutton1532
draffsacked1548
gourmand1557
pampering1562
guttish1567
ingluvious1569
belly-fed1574
lurching1577
gulling1579
lickerous-mouthed1579
gully-gut1582
gormandizing1596
belly-devout1599
guttling1633
helluous1641
gulous1657
belly-proud1675
gut-led1682
gulligutted1694
poke pudding1705
ungodly1746
ventripotent1823
ventripotential1824
guttlesome1861
1823 New Monthly Mag. 7 115 These ventripotent melodists called up from the Red Sea of my port and claret all their buried swells, shakes, and cadences.
1837 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 42 425 The ventripotent vermin [sc. fleas] were in the midst of their meal.
1863 W. P. Lennox 50 Years' Biogr. Reminisc. I. 303 Louis des huîtres, as the ventripotent monarch was called.
Derivatives
ventripoˈtential adj. Apparently an isolated use.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > excessive consumption of food or drink > [adjective] > gluttonous
freckc950
egernec1200
gluttonous1340
glutterous1382
lecherous1480
pampereda1529
glutton1532
draffsacked1548
gourmand1557
pampering1562
guttish1567
ingluvious1569
belly-fed1574
lurching1577
gulling1579
lickerous-mouthed1579
gully-gut1582
gormandizing1596
belly-devout1599
guttling1633
helluous1641
gulous1657
belly-proud1675
gut-led1682
gulligutted1694
poke pudding1705
ungodly1746
ventripotent1823
ventripotential1824
guttlesome1861
1824 New Monthly Mag. 11 313 A ventri-potential citizen, into whose Mediterranean mouth good things are perpetually flowing.
venˈtripotence n. rare
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > front > belly or abdomen > [noun] > types of > state of having
paunchiness1879
ventripotence1922
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. 384 Mr Dixon,..took on to ask of Mr Mulligan himself whether his incipient ventripotence,..betokened an ovoblastic gestation in the prostatic utricle.
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