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Definitions: Bellied |
BelliedAdjective1. Having a belly; often used in combination. 2. Curving outward. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bellied" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1814. (references) |
Synonyms: BelliedSynonyms: bellying (adj), bulbous (adj), bulging (adj), bulgy (adj), protuberant (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: bellyless (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Convexity | Adjective: convex, prominent, protuberant, projecting; Verb: bossed, embossed, bossy, nodular, bunchy; clavate, clavated, claviform; hummocky, moutonne, mammiliform; papulous, papilose; hemispheric, bulbous; bowed, arched; bold; bellied; tuberous, tuberculous; tumous; cornute, odontoid; lentiform, lenticular; gibbous; club shaped, hubby, hubbly, knobby, papillose, saddle-shaped, selliform, subclavate, torose, ventricose, verrucose. |
Expansion | Adjective: expanded; Verb: larger; (large; swollen; expansive; wide open, wide spread; flabelliform; overgrown, exaggerated, bloated, fat, turgid, tumid, hypertrophied, dropsical; pot bellied, swag bellied; edematous, oedematous, obese, puffy, pursy, blowzy, bigswoln, distended; patulous; bulbous; (convex); full blown, full grown, full formed; big; abdominous, enchymatous, rhipidate; tumefacient, tumefying. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Bellied |
| English words defined with "bellied": Ampullated ♦ Bolster work ♦ great bellied. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Bellied" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 45.45% of the time. "Bellied" is used about 11 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 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 45.45% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 27.27% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 18.18% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 9.09% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 11 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "bellied": big bellied ♦ great bellied. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "bellied": beer-bellied, black-bellied, chestnut-bellied, dark-bellied, fat-bellied, fire-bellied, red-bellied, swollen-bellied, white-bellied, yellow-bellied. | |
Containing "bellied": blue-bellied lorikeet, blue-bellied parrot, fire-bellied toad, Red-bellied perch, red-bellied snake, red-bellied terrapin, red-bellied turtle, white-bellied swallow, yellow-bellied sapsucker, yellow-bellied terrapin. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "bellied"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | ذو بطن. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | "起 (Bellying). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | bonito (bonito, oceanic bonito, skipjack, stripe bellied bonito, striped tuna), listao (bonito, oceanic bonito, skipjack, stripe bellied bonito, striped tuna), gestreepte tonijn (bonito, oceanic bonito, skipjack, stripe bellied bonito, striped tuna). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | bonite vraie (stripe bellied bonito), bonite ventre rayé (stripe bellied bonito), bariole (stripe bellied bonito), Thynnus pelamys (stripe bellied bonito), thon rouge du Nord (stripe bellied bonito), listao (stripe bellied bonito), LA Euthynnus pelamys (stripe bellied bonito), Katsuwonus pelamis (stripe bellied bonito), avec un gros ventre (big bellied). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | bauchig (belliedly, bulbous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κοιλαράσ (big bellied), σελάχι (Atlantic prickly skate, blond ray, blue skate, bordered skate, bottlenose skate, brown ray, butterfly rays, common European skate, common guitarfish, devilfish, flapper skate, Fuller's ray, guitarfish, homelyn ray, leather belt, little skate, long-nose skate, long-nosed skate, marbled ray, painted ray, pelagic sting ray, pelagic stingray, roker, rough ray, shagreen ray, skate, small-eyed ray, spotted ray, sting ray, stingray, tarry skate, thornback ray, thorny skate, undulate ray, white skate, white-bellied skate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | כרסתן (paunchy, portly, potbellied). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | hasas (abdominous, bellyflop, big with young, gutty, paunchy, pregnant, swag-bellied, tubby, with young). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | bahak (burst of laugher, white bellied sea eagle), gembrot (big bellied, paunchy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | dalla pancia. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 불룩해지". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | bolgagh (abdominal, billowy, blister, bog, bulging, moss, puffy, variola). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | elliedbay barrigudo (abdominous, barrel-bellied, big bellied, pauper, potbelly), gaiado (bonito, oceanic bonito, skipjack, skipjack tuna, stripe bellied bonito, stripe-bellied bonito, striped tuna), atum rabilho (Atlantic bluefin tuna, Atlantic tuna, bluefin tuna, bonito, common tunny, Northern bluefin tuna, oceanic bonito, skipjack, stripe bellied bonito, striped tuna, tuna, tunny). (various references) borcãnat. (various references) barrigón (big bellied, paunchy, pursy), listado (barred, bonito, list, listing, oceanic bonito, skipjack, skipjack tuna, stripe bellied bonito, stripe-bellied bonito, striped, striped tuna), embarazada (big bellied, big with child, pregnant, pregnantly, quick with child, with child), atún rojo (Atlantic bluefin tuna, Atlantic tuna, bluefin, bluefin tuna, bonito, common tunny, Northern bluefin tuna, oceanic bonito, skipjack, stripe bellied bonito, striped tuna, tuna, tunny). (various references) karınlı, göbekli (paunchy, potbellied). (various references) пузатий (abdominous, paunchy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "bellied": potbellied. (additional references) | |
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"Bellied" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ballsed, Belaid, belid, belind, belined, bellend, Bellido, Bellier, belline, belloe, Bellord, bellver, bellwed, bollide, Bollyeld, Buellia. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bellied" (pronounced be"lēd) |
| 4 | -e" l ē d | jellied. |
| 3 | -l ē d | bullied, dallied, rallied, sullied, tallied, unsullied. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: libeled. | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-e-e-i-l-l" | |
-1 letter: bedell, belied, belled, billed, edible. | |
-2 letters: bedel, belie, belle, bield, bleed, edile, elide, libel. | |
-3 letters: bell, bide, bile, bill, bled, deil, dele, deli, dell, diel, dill, eide, idle, lied. | |
-4 letters: bed, bee, bel, bid, deb, dee, del, dib, die, eel, eld, ell, ill, led, lee, lei, lib, lid, lie. | |
-5 letters: be, bi, de, ed, el. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-e-e-i-l-l" | |
+1 letter: billeted, elidible, libelled, rebilled. | |
+2 letters: belittled, bladelike, bridewell, indelible, prebilled. | |
+3 letters: bedevilled, bridewells, bulletined, declinable, deshabille, excludible, ineludible, mislabeled, overbilled, potbellied, timbrelled. | |
+4 letters: battlefield, bedevilling, bedrivelled, bladderlike, deliverable, deshabilles, disbowelled, dislikeable, embellished, liberalised, liberalized, mislabelled, spellbinder. | |
+5 letters: banderillero, battlefields, becudgelling, bedrivelling, bewilderedly, defibrillate, deliberately, displaceable, indeclinable, radiolabeled, speedballing, spellbinders, underbellies. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 65 6C 6C 69 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... . .-.. .-.. .. . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100101 01101100 01101100 01101001 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B e l l i e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0065 006C 006C 0069 0065 0064 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36717878757170 |
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