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Definition: POT-BELLIED |
POT-BELLIEDAdjective1. Having a protuberant belly, like the bottom of a pot. |
Date "POT-BELLIED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1843. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: POT-BELLIED |
| English words defined with "POT-BELLIED": hoggish ♦ piggish, piggy, porcine ♦ swinish ♦ Tun-bellied. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "POT-BELLIED": CAVANILLESIA PLATANIFOLIA ♦ Sancho Panza. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "POT-BELLIED": Paunchy. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
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) | |
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| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 32 | 61,292 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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 barrigudo (barrel-bellied, big-bellied, paunchy). (various references) pântecos (big bellied, roundabout), burduhos (big bellied, paunchy), burduhãnos. (various references) koca göbekli (paunchy), şiş göbekli. (various references) phệ bụng (abdominous, swag-bellied). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Words rhyming with "POT-BELLIED" (pronounced 'Pot"-bel`lied'): Big-bellied, Broken-bellied, Fish-bellied, Swag-bellied, Tun-bellied. (additional references) |
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 4F 54 2D 42 45 4C 4C 49 45 44 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01001111 01010100 00101101 01000010 01000101 01001100 01001100 01001001 01000101 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P O T - B E L L I E D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 004F 0054 002D 0042 0045 004C 004C 0049 0045 0044 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5049541536394646433938 |
| 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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