gorbelly

[gawr-bel-ee]

noun

Obsolete.

plural

gorbellies 

1. a protruding belly.

Other Word Forms

• gorbellied adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of gorbelly¹

1510–20; perhaps gore ¹ + belly; compare Swedish (dial.) går-bälg

Example Sentences

Here is the famous temple of the great deity Omasius Gorgut, or Gorbelly.

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At last came in the dancers on the rope, and a gorbelly'd blockhead standing out with a ladder, commanded his boy to hopp every round singing, and dance a jigg on the top of it, and then tumble through burning hoops of iron, with a glass in his mouth.

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