bellying

== English == === Etymology === By surface analysis, belly +‎ -ing. === Verb === bellying present participle and gerund of belly === Adjective === bellying (not comparable) Bulging or billowing. === Noun === bellying (plural bellyings) A bulging, swelling or billowing shape; the act or state of bulging, swelling or billowing. 1693, Simon de la Loubère, A New Historical Relation of the Kingdom of Siam, translated by A.P., London: Tho. Horne, Part II, Chapter II. Of the Houses of the Siamese, and of their Architecture in Publick Buildings, page 32,[2] But the Principal Ornament of the Pagodes, is to be accompanied, as generally they are, with several Pyramids of Lime and Brick […] Some there are which diminish and grow thick again four or five times in their heighth, so that the Profile of them goes waving: But these Bellyings out are smaller as they are in a higher part of the Pyramid. 1873, Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Sunset,” Diary entry dated 3 November, 1873, in The Dublin Review, July, August, September, 1920, p. 64,[3] A few minutes later the brightness over; one great dull rope coiling overhead sidelong from the sunset, its dewlaps and bellyings painted with a maddery campion-colour that seemed to stoop and drop like sopped cake; ==== Synonyms ==== bulge convexity gibbosity protrusion protuberance