† gundy-gut Obs.
A fat paunch; pl. a gluttonous, voracious person. (Cf. greediguts.)
| a 1700 B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Gundigutts, a fat pursy Fellow. 1712 Arbuthnot John Bull iii. ii, They gave one another nick-names: she called him gundy-guts. 1718 Ozell Tournefort's Voy. I. 156 Bacchus sits quite o' top of the Basso Relievo with Asses ears and a huge gundy gut. 1764 T. Bridges Homer Travest. (1797) II. 292 Slice after slice you'll see him cut, And stuff within his gundy gut. |