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gorbellied en · ADJ

Etymology

From gorbelly + -ed.

Meanings

1. having a gorbelly; fat; potbellied
   • 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:
   • 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:
   • "Get tha gone out on't, tha gurt guttling gor-bellied mazy-jack!" she observed acrimoniously. 1876, Oliver Madox-Brown, The Dwale Bluth:
   • 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:

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Synonyms

overweight