▪ I. bloated, ppl. a.1
(ˈbləʊtɪd)
[f. bloat v.1 + -ed.]
Of fish: Cured by the process described in bloat v.1; half-dried in smoke.
| 1648 Herrick Oberon's F. Poems (1869) I. 127 A newt's stew'd thigh, A bloated earwig. 1666 Act 18 Chas. II, ii, Any Ling, Herring, Cod or Pilchard, fresh or salt, dried or bloated. 1670 Blount Law Dict., Bloated Fish or Herring..are those which are half-dried. 1753 Chambers Cycl. Supp. s.v., Bloated herrings are made by steeping them in a peculiar brine, and then hanging them in a chimney to dry. 1830 M. Donovan Dom. Econ. II. 239 A new flavor..in which that of a bloated herring is sometimes distinguishable. |
▪ II. ˈbloated, ppl. a.2
[f. bloat v.2 + -ed.]
1. Of the body, face, etc.: Swollen, puffed up, turgid; esp. as describing the effect of gluttony and self-indulgence.
| 1664 H. More Myst. Iniq. 475 Disguised in some uncouth habit with circumcised crowns, and moaped or bloated looks. 1711 F. Fuller Med. Gymn. 56 A Bloated Habit of Body. 1713 Guardian No. 17 (1756) I. 79 The tender fool has wept till her eyes are swelled and bloated. 1782 Cowper Prog. Err. 495 Bloated spiders. 1820 Keats St. Agnes xxxix, The bloated wassailers will never heed. |
2. transf. and fig. a. Of things: Swollen, inflated, crammed; overgrown, of excessive size.
| 1711 Werenfelsius' Meteors of Stile 235 He affected the Eloquence of bloated and high-sounding Words. 1785 Cowper Task i. 739 His overgorged and bloated purse. 1846 Prescott Ferd. & Is. III. xvi. 194 The bloated magnificence of succeeding monarchs. 1862 Disraeli in Hansard Ser. iii. CLXVI. 1426 Those bloated armaments which naturally involve states in financial embarassments. 1879 Geo. Eliot Theo. Such ii. 47 Its bloated, idle charities. |
b. Of persons or their attributes: Swollen with pride of rank or wealth; puffed up, pampered.
| 1731 Swift To Gay Wks. 1755 IV. i. 169 A statesman..A bloated minister. 1863 Stanley Jew. Ch. xiii. 311 The bloated pluralists of the mediæval Church. 1868 J. H. Blunt Ref. Ch. Eng. I. 355 The ‘bloated aristocracy’ of a republican ideal. |
3. Comb., as bloated-bellied adj.
| 1875 B. Taylor Faust I. xxi. 180 Is't the salamander pushes Bloated-bellied through the bushes? |