Citations:Buddha belly

Noun: "(informal) a round, protruding belly"

 * 1959 — Charles Beaumont, The Intruder, G. P. Putnam's Sons (1959), page 139:
 * He was a large man with a Buddha belly and flabby, clay-brown arms.
 * 1962 — James Bassett, Harm's Way, World Publishing Co. (1962), page 275:
 * Clayton Canfil, listening to the brief colloquy, thumped his round Buddha belly, as if this was his cryptic method of applauding.
 * 1966 — Edwin P. Hoyt, A Matter of Conscience, Duell, Sloan, and Pearce (1966), page 267:
 * One expects anything from him, of course, with his little popping eyes and steel spectacles, and his Buddha belly and Trotsky beard.
 * 1978 — Samuel A. Schreiner, Jr., Pleasant Places, Arbor House (1977), ISBN 9780877951407, page 150:
 * "We've got plenty of wops like me. Ain't that enough?" he asked, and let his Buddha belly shake with laughter.
 * 1987 — Charles Pepper Shipman, I'll Meet You at the Finish!, Life Enhancement Publications (1987), ISBN 9780873229036, page 11:
 * He's lost his budding Buddha belly. His blood pressure has dropped. Running makes him feel good.
 * 2000 — Steve Martini, The Attorney, Jove Books (2001), ISBN 9781101549599, unnumbered page:
 * He wears a wrinkled polo shirt that does little to disguise his bulging Buddha belly.
 * 2003 — Danielle Steel, Dating Game, Bantam Dell (2004), ISBN 0440240751, page 171:
 * He wagged a finger at her, and she laughed, rubbing the enormous Buddha belly that looked like it was going to explode out of her dress at any minute.
 * 2004 — Zac Unger, Working Fire: The Making of a Fireman, Penguin Books (2004), ISBN 1594200017, page 117:
 * He pulled up his shirt, thrust out his midsection like he was pregnant, and rubbed his hands over the Buddha belly.
 * 2004 — Carrie Peyton Dahlberg, "Living Large", Yoga Journal, December 2003:
 * If you have a copious "Buddha belly," try simply acknowledging it without judgment and then accommodating it with gentleness.
 * 2005 — Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts, Atria Books (2005), ISBN 1416506705, page 114:
 * The deputy at the desk has a Doc Holliday mustache and a Buddha belly.
 * 2005 — Leslie Silbert, The Intelligencer, Washington Square Press (2005), ISBN 9780743432931, page 82:
 * "Damn, sabotaging my diet yet again," Max moaned, patting his soft Buddha belly.
 * 2006 — Caprice Crane, Stupid and Contagious, Warner Books (2006), ISBN 9780446551045, unnumbered page:
 * She sits there all smiles and rubs her imaginary Buddha belly.
 * 2007 — P. J. Parrish, A Thousand Bones, Pocket Books (2007), ISBN 9781416525875, page 91:
 * He had a Buddha belly and two tufts of gray hair — one on his head and one on his chest.
 * 2007 — Matthew Polly, American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China, Gotham Books (2007), ISBN 9781592402625, page 297:
 * He was plump with a well-padded, porcine face and an advanced Buddha belly.
 * 2009 — Kate Cambor, Gilded Youth: Three Lives in France's Belle Époque, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2009), ISBN 9780374162306, page 204:
 * Léon may have looked like a character from a Daumier cartoon — the very picture of merry ineptitude manifested in cherubic cheeks and a Buddha belly — but he was as agile and ruthless as a cobra.