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food baby

food baby

1 7.4
A swollen stomach after eating a very large meal
  • noun
  • /fuːd ˈbeɪbi/
  • Slang
translation icon : barriga de comida
  • It's probably just a food baby, did you have a big lunch?

I mean, yeah, it's stretchy, but also as well, because it's quite tight, I feel like it would show every bit of food baby, which, I mean, it's fine.

Examples

  • Every holiday, she ends up with a food baby after all the festive feasting.

  • I have a food baby that looks like a basketball right in my stomach.

  • I have a food baby that looks like a basketball right in my stomach.

  • God, I'm full; I'm gonna have a food baby.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • People have room for a food baby burrito coma, Thanksgiving Day, you know, like, OK, give them a little room.

  • I mean, yeah, it's stretchy, but also as well, because it's quite tight, I feel like it would show every bit of food baby, which, I mean, it's fine.

    sophdoeslife

  • Lea's so tiny she could eat half a hamburger and it would look like a food baby.

    Blog text (27)

  • After finishing that huge dinner, I felt like I had a food baby in my stomach.

  • He joked that his round belly was just a food baby from the buffet.

Synonyms

full stomach
vsfood baby
5 1.0

The feeling you have after you eat enough food

is similar but focuses on the visible bulge caused by a very large meal
bloating
vsfood baby
4 3.7

An uncomfortable swelling or full feeling in the stomach often after eating

is a specific rounded appearance after eating rather than general discomfort or gas
satiety
vsfood baby
3 8.0

The feeling of being full after eating and not wanting more food

is the same completion of hunger but includes a temporary rounded look
bellyful
vsfood baby
1 4.4

A large amount of food that fills the stomach or is more than enough

is the visual, rounded stomach effect that often follows eating too much
repletion
vsfood baby
1 9.0

A feeling of being too full after eating or drinking

is the same overfull feeling but specifically shows as a rounded tummy after eating
stomachful
vsfood baby
1 5.7

An amount of food or drink that fills your belly completely

is the bodily appearance and feeling that results from eating such a large amount
bulginess
vsfood baby
8.4

A rounded part that sticks out from something

is the temporary rounded look that appears after eating a large meal
sense of fullness
vsfood baby
3.8

A feeling of not being hungry after eating that makes you not want more food

is the same fullness feeling but emphasises the visible rounded appearance after a meal

How Full

food baby
  • Slang
1 7.4
fullness
7 2.7
satiation
1 6.6
to hunger
4 1.2

Surface Forms

food baby singular
food babies plural

Morphology

food + baby

The meaning is a playful compound built directly from 'food' + 'baby' where 'baby' evokes a small rounded belly caused by food; this metaphor is transparent and compositional. A B1 learner who knows both words would readily infer the sense of a bloated or rounded stomach after eating.

Etymology

Food baby comes from the funny image of a round stomach that looks like a small baby after you eat a lot of food. So it is used to mean 'a bloated or very full stomach' after a large meal.