gorbellied
English
Alternative forms
- gorrel-bellied
Etymology
From gorbelly + -ed.
Adjective
gorbellied (comparative more gorbellied, superlative most gorbellied)
- having a gorbelly; fat; potbellied
- 1596, Nashe, Thomas, Have with You to Saffron-Walden:
- O, 'tis an unconscionable vast gorbellied volume, bigger bulked than a Dutch hoy, & far more boisterous and cumbersome than a pair of Swissers' omnipotent galiass-breeches.
- a. 1597, Shakespeare, William, Henry IV, Part 1, Act 2, Scene 2:
- Hang ye, gorbellied knaves, are ye undone? / No, ye fat chuffs I would your store were here!
- 1618, Holyday, Barten, Technogamia:
- Some of your gorbellied country chuffes have cast themselves into their frieze jerkins, with great tin buttons silver'd o'r.
- 1876, Madox-Brown, Oliver, The Dwale Bluth:
- "Get tha gone out on't, tha gurt guttling gor-bellied mazy-jack!" she observed acrimoniously.
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Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:overweight