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sowbelly

American  
[sou-bel-ee] / ˈsaʊˌbɛl i /

noun

  1. fat salt pork taken from the belly of a hog.


Etymology

Origin of sowbelly

An Americanism dating back to 1865–70; sow 2 + belly

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But you don’t never eat ice cream with sowbelly.

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Talk about beans and sowbelly, how would these do?”

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A month with a bull train, and a diet of beans and sowbelly will put a linin’ in your in’ards and a heart in your chest.

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I shall never again eat meat that will taste as good as the fried "sowbelly" did then, accompanied by "flapjacks" and plenty of good, strong coffee.

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When I started, I'd put a couple of sour-dough biscuits and some sowbelly in my pocket in case I might get hungry.

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