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• yellow-belly
  yellow-belly

  noun

  a slang word for coward
• yellow belly
  yellow belly

  noun

  a native of Lincolnshire, esp of the fens

yellow-belly

¹ British  

noun

1. a slang word for coward

2. another name for callop

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yellow belly ² British  

noun

1. dialect a native of Lincolnshire, esp of the fens

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Other Word Forms

• yellow-bellied
  adjective

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yellow-belly yellow belly

At first, Hubie played the "real yellow-belly" that he was and became famous in films.

From Time Magazine Archive

Pa said, “Come on, we gotta get back to the Settlement. I’m-a call a meeting so’s we can do something ’bout catching that yellow-belly dog of a blamed thief.”

From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis

Around the middle of each corn fairy is a yellow-belly belt.

From Rootabaga Stories by Maud Fuller Petersham

It’s Thursday, Sept. 25, 1975, and in a backyard citrus tree on South Glencoe Avenue in Venice, a Medfly is showing its foul face, its blue eyes and yellow belly.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2024

Mallory Sarver unhooks one, loosens the drawstring, reaches in and pulls out a tiny bird with a gray head, a brilliant yellow belly with black streaks and white stripes on its black wings.

From Washington Times ● May 26, 2018

The thumb-size bundle of neurons acknowledges the yellow belly within but then moves to stanch its quivering power.

From New York Times ● Jan. 3, 2011

Bright olive-green; head, neck, throat and upper part of breast, bluish ash; yellow belly; black band on breast; about bushes and in the grass; noteworthy song.

From Wild Birds in City Parks Being hints on identifying 145 birds, prepared primarily for the spring migration in Lincoln Park, Chicago by Alice Hall Walter

Lead-colored head and neck, becoming nearly black on the breast; clear olive-green back, and yellow belly.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 by Various