gorbellied
adjEtymology From gorbelly + -ed.
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having a gorbelly; fat; potbellied
- 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.1596, Thomas Nashe, Have with You to Saffron-Walden:
- Hang ye, gorbellied knaves, are ye undone? / No, ye fat chuffs I would your store were here!a. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, act 2, scene 2:
2 more examples
- Some of your gorbellied country chuffes have cast themselves into their frieze jerkins, with great tin buttons silver'd o'r.1618, Barten Holyday, Technogamia:
- "Get tha gone out on't, tha gurt guttling gor-bellied mazy-jack!" she observed acrimoniously.1876, Oliver Madox-Brown, The Dwale Bluth:
- Synonyms
- overweight