Definition of "bellied" in English

adjective

1. Having a large or prominent belly.

2. (in combination) Having a belly of a specified type.

   • full-bellied knife
   • round-bellied vase

3. Swollen, bulging, or billowing; bellying.

   • 1819, Joseph Rodman Drake, “The American Flag” in The Culprit Fay, and Other Poems, New York: Van Norden & King, 1847, p. 91, Flag of the seas! on ocean wave Thy stars shall glitter o’er the brave; When death, careering on the gale, Sweeps darkly round the bellied sail,

4. (figuratively) Overblown, exaggerated.

verb

1. simple past and past participle of belly