swagbelly

From swag (“to droop; to sag”) +‎ belly.

swagbelly (plural swagbellies)

A prominent, overhanging belly.
- 1755, Miguel de Cervantes, translated by Tobias Smollett, Don Quixote, Volume 1, II.1:
  Sancho Zancas […] in the picture, was represented as a person of a short stature, swag belly, and long spindle shanks […] .
- 1935, Robert Ervin Howard, “The Haunter of the Pits”, in The Hour of the Dragon:
  He swept his gaze over the short, squat throat, the hairy swagbelly, and the mighty breast, swelling in giant arches like twin shields.
Hence, a person with such a belly.
- 1694, Peter, transl. Motteux, chapter V, in Gargantua and Pantagruel, translation of La vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel by Rabelais, François, published c. 1564:
  However, so many swagbellies and puff-bags will hardly go to St Hiacco, as there did in the year 524
(medicine) A distended abdomen, especially caused by a tumour or enlarged organ; a physconia.^[1]

[1]
1839, Robley Dunglison, “SWAGBELLY”, in Medical Lexicon. A New Dictionary of Medical Science, […], 2nd edition, Philadelphia, Pa.: Lea and Blanchard, successors to Carey and Co., →OCLC:

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