Dictionary

gorbelly en · NOUN

Etymology

UK 16th century. Possibly gore + belly or gormand + belly. Compare Swedish går-bälg.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) A large, protruding belly.
2. (obsolete) A person with such a belly.
   • 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:

Forms

Deriveds

gorbellied

Synonyms

paunch (large belly) · fat person