Adjective

(er)

Tending to balloon

* {{quote-book, year=1861, author=Various, title=Atlantic Monthly Volume 7, No. 40, February, 1861, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=His low-cut shirt-collar and narrow silken neck-tie were in the style called "English," as quite decidedly, also, were his cross-barred trousers of balloony build; nor, although thus flinging himself for diversion into the vortex of the lower crowd, had he foregone the luxury of tan-colored kid gloves and patent-leather shoes. }}

* {{quote-news, year=2004, date=July 2, author=Fred Camper, title=The City, Brick by Brick, work=Chicago Reader citation

, passage=Above the word is part of "Central," rendered in a dated balloony script, underlining the archaic nature of Gross's subject. }}