bellying

Questions about bellying

What does bellying mean?

bellying means "curving outward".

How many syllables are in bellying?

bellying has 2 syllables: bel-lying. The stress falls on "bel".

What is another word for bellying?

Close synonyms include bellied, bulbous, bulging, bulgy, protuberant. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bellying a common word?

bellying is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.