a. Having a belly rounded like a tun; pot-bellied, corpulent.
1550. Lever, Serm. (Arb.), 119. Fyfty tunne belyed Monckes geuen to glotony fylled theyr pawnches.
1683. Kennett, trans. Erasm. on Folly, 134. I prefer the opinion of the good old tun-bellied Divines.
1760. Fawkes, trans. Anacreon, Ode xxxviii. 17, note. Silenus was … represented by a little, flat-nosed, bald, fat, tun-bellied, old drunken Fellow.
1866. Cornh. Mag., May, 636. A crew of useless tunbellied gourmands.
So Tun-belly, a belly like a tun, a big round belly.
a. 1704. T. Brown, Lett. Ser. & Com., To Men, Wks. 1709, III. 120. The presumptuous Wretch that should think irreverently of a double Chin, and a Tun-Belly.
