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sourbelly en · NOUN

Etymology

From sour + belly.

Meanings

1. A cantankerous person.
   • You are an old sourbelly this evening. What's the matter? — John Dos Passos, Michael Clark, Streets of Night (1990)
2. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of sowbelly.
   alt of sowbelly
   • Their supplies were down to a dog tent, five plugs of chewing tobacco, four beans, and a slab of sourbelly. — Walter Vaughan, The Life and Work of Sir William Van Horne (1920)

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