gorbellied

English

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Etymology

From gorbelly +‎ -ed.

Adjective

gorbellied (comparative more gorbellied, superlative most gorbellied)

  1. having a gorbelly; fat; potbellied
    • 1596, Nashe, Thomas, Have with You to Saffron-Walden:
      O, 'tis an unconscionable vast gorbellied volume, bigger bulked than a Dutch hoy, & far more boisterous and cumbersome than a pair of Swissers' omnipotent galiass-breeches.
    • a. 1597, Shakespeare, William, Henry IV, Part 1, Act 2, Scene 2:
      Hang ye, gorbellied knaves, are ye undone? / No, ye fat chuffs I would your store were here!
    • 1618, Holyday, Barten, Technogamia:
      Some of your gorbellied country chuffes have cast themselves into their frieze jerkins, with great tin buttons silver'd o'r.
    • 1876, Madox-Brown, Oliver, The Dwale Bluth:
      "Get tha gone out on't, tha gurt guttling gor-bellied mazy-jack!" she observed acrimoniously.

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