abdominous, a.
(æbˈdɒmɪnəs)
[f. L. abdōmen, abdomin-, + -ous, as if from a L. *abdōminōsus.]
Having a paunch, or big belly; corpulent.
| 1651 Cleveland Dial. Two Zealots 44 (Wks. 1677) 34 It's so abdominous [1st ed. abominous]. The Trojan Nag was not so fully lin'd. 1655 Fuller Ch. Hist. x. xvii. 10 He was..somewhat abdominous, and corpulent in his body. a 1782 Cowper Pr. Error 217 Gorgonius sits, abdominous and wan, Like a fat squab upon a Chinese fan. 1878 H. M. Stanley Dark Cont. I. xv. 3 To see him surrounded by fat wives and abdominous brats. |