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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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Once or twice a week they have sowbelly.

From Time Magazine Archive

Farmers feed their hogs carefully to keep them from producing too much lard, fat back and sowbelly.

From Time Magazine Archive

She would spill the walnut kernels, and then she wouldn’t be able to sell them to buy sowbelly and potatoes.

From "Sounder" by William H. Armstrong

Sometimes when the boy’s father helped butcher hogs down at the big house, he would bring home spareribs and sowbelly—lots of sowbelly, but not much spareribs.

From "Sounder" by William H. Armstrong

The diets of cornbread and sowbelly and syrup, the crowding of four and five persons to a single room.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

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