bellycheer
nounUK /ˈbɛliˌt͡ʃɪə/ · US /ˈbɛliˌt͡ʃɪɚ/
Etymology Uncertain, either borrowed from French belle chère or derived from belly + cheer; either way, see cheer.
1
Obsolete Feasting.
- He's now at supper with the scholars, where there's such belly-cheer as Wagner in his life ne'er saw the like: and, see where they come! belike the feast is ended.1616, Christopher Marlowe, The Tragedy of Doctor Faustus:
- and capable onely of loaves and belly-cheer!1641, John Milton, Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 161: