portly

Word origin

From an archaic sense of port (“manner in which a person carries himself; bearing; deportment; carriage”) + -ly.

Used in a sentence

• “In the length he attains, and in his baleen, the Fin-back resembles the right whale, but is of a less portly girth, and a lighter colour, approaching to olive.”

• “His portly middle section, rising beyond like a small hill, heaved rhythmically.”

• “In Heavyweights, Tony Perkis (Ben Stiller) is a fitness guru who installs himself as the über-buff leader of Camp Hope, with the goal of helping portly youngsters shed their saggy stomachs and thunder thighs.”

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