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Big-bellied

Definition: Big-bellied

Big-bellied

Adjective

1. Having a prominent belly.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "big-bellied" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

 

Synonym: Big-bellied

Synonym: great bellied (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Big-bellied

English words defined with "big-bellied": Gor-belly. (references)
Etymologies containing "big-bellied": Barrigudo. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Big-bellied

"Big-bellied" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Big-bellied" is used about 5 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%5157,705

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

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Modern Translations: Big-bellied

Language Translations for "big-bellied"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

大"起. (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

gendut (abdominous, corpulent, potbellied, stout, very profitable). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

크 불룩해지". (various references)

   

Manx

  

prinjeigagh (paunchy, pot-bellied), mooar-volgagh (corpulent). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ig-belliedbay

   

Welsh

  

boliog (corpulent). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "Big-bellied"

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

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Anagrams: Big-bellied

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-b-d-e-e-g-i-i-l-l"

-2 letters: elidible, eligible.

-3 letters: bellied, gillied, legible, libeled.

-4 letters: bedell, belied, belled, bilged, billed, billie, dibble, edible, gelled, gibbed, gilled, gillie, lilied.

-5 letters: bedel, beige, belie, belle, bible, bield, bilge, bleed, ebbed, edile, elide, gelid, gibed, glebe, glede, gleed, glide, ledge, libel, liege.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Big-bellied


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

42 69 67 2D 62 65 6C 6C 69 65 64

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

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

01000010 01101001 01100111 00101101 01100010 01100101 01101100 01101100 01101001 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#105 &#103 &#45 &#98 &#101 &#108 &#108 &#105 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0069 0067 002D 0062 0065 006C 006C 0069 0065 0064

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

3675731568717878757170

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INDEX

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


  

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