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

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

No yellow-belly, Potter accepted�on one condition: Barton must turn critic and review the performance.

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 Petersham, Maud Fuller