Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Having a large, protruding belly; pot-bellied: Describes a person (typically a man) with a noticeably large and round abdomen.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Sau khi kết hôn, anh ấy bắt đầu phệ bụng. (After getting married, he started to get pot-bellied.)
  • Ông chú phệ bụng đó rất vui tính. (That pot-bellied uncle is very funny.)
  • Anh ta không còn gầy như trước nữa mà đã phệ bụng ra. (He is no longer as thin as before; he has developed a pot belly.)

Advanced Usage

• The term "phệ bụng" is often used in a neutral or mildly humorous, descriptive way. It is less formal and more colloquial than clinical terms.
• It can be used as a standalone descriptive phrase or within a larger description.

Variants and Related Words

• Bụng phệ (adj): This is a common alternative word order with the same meaning (pot-bellied).
  • Một người đàn ông bụng phệ. (A pot-bellied man.)
• Béo bụng (adj): Literally "fat-bellied"; a more direct synonym.
• Bụng to (adj): Literally "big-bellied"; a simpler, more general description.

Synonyms

• Pot-bellied (adj): The most direct English equivalent.
• Paunchy (adj): Having a paunch (protruding belly).
• Corpulent (adj): (Formal) Having a large, bulky body.
• Ventripotent (adj): (Formal, literary) Pot-bellied.

Related Idioms/Phrases

• Bụng bia: Literally "beer belly". This is a specific, common cause of being phệ bụng.
  • Anh ấy có cái bụng bia khá to. (He has a rather large beer belly.)

1. Pot-bellied