sowbelly

[sou-bel-ee]

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noun

fat salt pork taken from the belly of a hog.

Origin of sowbelly

An Americanism dating back to 1865–70; sow² + belly

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Related Words for sowbelly

pancetta, pork, rasher, sowbelly, gammon

Examples from the Web for sowbelly

Historical Examples of sowbelly

“Old cornbread and sowbelly” are a menu complete for the mountaineer.
Our Southern Highlanders
Horace Kephart
When I started, I'd put a couple of sour-dough biscuits and some sowbelly in my pocket in case I might get hungry.
Dutch Courage and Other Stories
Jack London
There was a plentiful supply of "sowbelly," hardtack and coffee and it was not long before it was being distributed.
Springfield in the Spanish American War
Walter W. Ward