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• yellow-belly
  yellow-belly

  noun

  a slang word for coward
• yellow belly
  yellow belly

  noun

  a native of Lincolnshire, esp of the fens

yellow-belly

¹ British  

noun

1. a slang word for coward

2. another name for callop

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yellow belly ² British  

noun

1. dialect a native of Lincolnshire, esp of the fens

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Other Word Forms

• yellow-bellied
  adjective

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yellow-belly yellow belly

At first, Hubie played the "real yellow-belly" that he was and became famous in films.

From Time Magazine Archive

Pa said, “Come on, we gotta get back to the Settlement. I’m-a call a meeting so’s we can do something ’bout catching that yellow-belly dog of a blamed thief.”

From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis

Around the middle of each corn fairy is a yellow-belly belt.

From Rootabaga Stories by Petersham, Maud Fuller

It’s Thursday, Sept. 25, 1975, and in a backyard citrus tree on South Glencoe Avenue in Venice, a Medfly is showing its foul face, its blue eyes and yellow belly.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2024

Mallory Sarver unhooks one, loosens the drawstring, reaches in and pulls out a tiny bird with a gray head, a brilliant yellow belly with black streaks and white stripes on its black wings.

From Washington Times ● May 26, 2018

The thumb-size bundle of neurons acknowledges the yellow belly within but then moves to stanch its quivering power.

From New York Times ● Jan. 3, 2011

As he skipped and jumped, with his rich yellow belly, and chaste silver sides, in the green of the grass, joy and glory of the highest merit, and gratitude, glowed in the heart of Lorraine.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright

No black mask; above dull olive-green, forehead brownish; throat and breast more or less washed with yellow, belly whitish, sides brownish.

From Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix by Chapman, Frank M.