pot-belly
(ˈpɒtˈbɛlɪ)
[f. pot n.1 + belly n.]
1. A swollen or protuberant belly.
| c 1714 Pope, etc. Mem. M. Scriblerus xi, He will find him⁓self a forked stradling Animal, with bandy legs, a short neck, a dun hide, and a pot-belly. 1822–34 Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) IV. 224 It..gives that projecting rotundity to the abdomen which is vulgarly distinguished by the name of Pot-Belly. 1897 Allbutt's Syst. Med. III. 488 The pot-belly of rickety children is caused..by dilatation of the bowels with undigested food. |
2. a. transf. A pot-bellied person.
| 1871 B. Taylor Faust (1875) I. v. 87 The baldpate pot⁓belly I've noted. |
b. Used attrib. to designate a kind of domestic stove made in the shape of a barrel.
| 1973 L. Russell Everyday Life Colonial Canada vii. 76 About the middle of the nineteenth century a new kind of heating stove appeared, inelegantly known as the pot⁓belly stove. It was barrel-shaped, with a flat top on which a pot or kettle could be heated. 1976 Columbus (Montana) News 1 July 7/6 (Advt.), One..cast iron pot belly stove. 1976 Morecambe Guardian 7 Dec. 33/2 (Advt.), Wood burning or coke burning stove (pot belly type) preferably with chimney. |