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POT-BELLIED

Definition: POT-BELLIED

POT-BELLIED

Adjective

1. Having a protuberant belly, like the bottom of a pot.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "POT-BELLIED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1843. (references)


Synonyms within Context: POT-BELLIED

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Furnace

Oil burner, gas burner, Franklin stove, pot-bellied stove; wood-burning stove; central heating, steam heat, hot water heat, gas heat, forced hot air, electric heat, heat pump; solar heat, convective heat.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: POT-BELLIED

English words defined with "POT-BELLIED": hoggishpiggish, piggy, porcineswinishTun-bellied. (references)
Specialty definitions using "POT-BELLIED": CAVANILLESIA PLATANIFOLIASancho Panza. (references)
Etymologies containing "POT-BELLIED": Paunchy. (references)

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Modern Usage: POT-BELLIED

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I've had all of this army and all of these officers, this damned Hooker, this damned idiot Meade, all of them, the whole bloody lousy rotten mess of sick-brained, pot-bellied scabheads that ain't fit to lead a johnny detail, ain't fit to pour pee out of a boot with instructions on the heel. (Gettysburg; writing credit: Ronald F. Maxwell)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: POT-BELLIED

DomainTitle

Books

  • Pot-Bellied Pet Pigs: Mini-Pig Care and Training (reference)

  • Pot-Bellied Pigs (Weird Pets) (reference)

  • Pot-Bellied Pigs As a Family Pet (reference)

  • Pot-Bellied Pigs: A Complete and Up-To-Date Guide (Basic Domestic Pet Library) (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: POT-BELLIED

"POT-BELLIED" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "POT-BELLIED" is used about 32 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%3261,292

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: POT-BELLIED

Language Translations for "POT-BELLIED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

罐"起. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

pocakos (gutty, paunchy, portly, roundabout, swag-bellied, tubby). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

布袋 (cloth bag, pot-bellied god of good fortune). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ほてい (pot-bellied god of good fortune, prosthetic, replenishment, revising). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

남비 불룩해지". (various references)

   

Manx

  

prinjeigagh (big-bellied, paunchy). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ot-belliedpay

   

Portuguese

  

barrigudo (barrel-bellied, big-bellied, paunchy). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

pântecos (big bellied, roundabout), burduhos (big bellied, paunchy), burduhãnos. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

koca göbekli (paunchy), şiş göbekli. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

phệ bụng (abdominous, swag-bellied). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "POT-BELLIED"

Words rhyming with "POT-BELLIED" (pronounced 'Pot"-bel`lied'): Big-bellied, Broken-bellied, Fish-bellied, Swag-bellied, Tun-bellied. (additional references)

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Anagrams: POT-BELLIED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: potbellied.

Words within the letters "b-d-e-e-i-l-l-o-p-t"

-2 letters: billeted, lepidote, petioled.

-3 letters: bellied, epidote, libeled, petiole, piloted.

-4 letters: bedell, belied, belled, belted, betide, billed, billet, boiled, bolete, boleti, bolide, bolled, bolted, diploe, dipole, edible, eloped, etoile, lilted, pelite, pellet, pelted, pilled, piolet, podite, polite, polled, pollee, tilled, toiled, tolled.

-5 letters: bedel, belie, belle, betel, bidet, bield, biped, bipod, bleed, bleep, blite, boite.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: POT-BELLIED


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 4F 54 2D 42 45 4C 4C 49 45 44

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01001111 01010100 00101101 01000010 01000101 01001100 01001100 01001001 01000101 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#79 &#84 &#45 &#66 &#69 &#76 &#76 &#73 &#69 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 004F 0054 002D 0042 0045 004C 004C 0049 0045 0044

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5049541536394646433938

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Translations: Modern
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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