a. [f. L. abdōmen, abdōmin-, + -OUS, as if from a L. *abdōminōsus.] Having a paunch, or big belly; corpulent.
1651. Cleveland, Dial. Two Zealots, 44 (Wks. 1677), 34.
| Yet here’s not all I cannot half untruss | |
| &c. it’s so abdominous [1st ed. abominous]. | |
| The Trojan Nag was not so fully lin’d! |
1655. Fuller, Ch. Hist., X. xvii. 10. He was … somewhat abdominous, and corpulent in his body.
a. 1782. Cowper, Pr. Error, 217. Gorgonius sits, abdominous and wan, Like a fat squab upon a Chinese fan.
1878. H. M. Stanley, Dark Cont., I. xv. 3. To see him surrounded by fat wives and abdominous brats.
