tun-bellied, a.
(ˈtʌnˌbɛlɪd)
Having a belly rounded like a tun; pot-bellied, corpulent.
| 1550 Lever Serm. (Arb.) 119 Fyfty tunne belyed Monckes geuen to glotony fylled theyr pawnches. 1683 Kennett tr. Erasm. on Folly 134, I prefer the opinion of the good old tun-bellied Divines. 1760 Fawkes tr. Anacreon, Ode xxxviii. 17 note, Silenus was..represented by a little, flat-nosed, bald, fat, tun-bellied, old drunken Fellow. 1866 Cornh. Mag. May 636 A crew of useless tunbellied gourmands. |
So ˈtun-belly, a belly like a tun, a big round belly.
| a 1704 T. Brown Lett. Ser. & Com., To Men Wks. 1709 III. 120 The presumptuous Wretch that should think irreverently of a double Chin, and a Tun-Belly. |