gorbelly
noun
a protruding belly.
gorbellied
-
a word derived from
gorbelly.
Example Sentences
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The gorbellied One whose voice is a wind!
From Witch-Doctors by Charles Beadle
He was somewhat gorbellied, had a little shake in his head, and was in effect unwieldy of his body.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 by Peter Anthony Motteux
He was a diminutive, stooping, palsied, plump, gorbellied old fellow, with a swingeing pair of stiff-standing lugs of his own, a sharp Roman nose, large rough eyebrows, mounted on a well-hung ass.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 by Peter Anthony Motteux
He then asked the skipper what the idle lobcocks used to sacrifice to their gorbellied god on interlarded fish-days.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 by Peter Anthony Motteux
