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plural gorbellies
(obsolete) A large, protruding belly.
(obsolete) A person with such a belly. quotations
The belching gorbelly hath well nigh killed me.
a. 1607, Thomas Tomkis, Lingua, or, The Combat of the Tongue and the Five Senses for Superiority, act 5, scene 5
To be briefe with him, he is a pestilence to pasties, which sweepeth many of them sheere away; a consumption to capons, chickins, and other poultry; a sepulchre to seafish and others in ponds, moates and rivers; a sharp sheepe-biter, and a marveilous mutton monger, a gorbelly glutton.
1638, Francis Godwin, The Man in the Moone
"You girt vlat-vooted, gorbelly, stunpole, Zolomon Moggridge," he yelled, louder and louder with each word, "you've a-squot I so vlat as a dough-fig."
1898, Walter Raymond, Two Men O' Mendip