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belly-ful
belly-ful (ˈbɛlɪfʊl) [f. belly n. + -ful.] 1. As much as the belly will contain; a sufficiency of food.1573 Tusser Husb. (1878) 101 No spoone meat, no bellifull, labourers thinke. 1595 Spenser Epithal. 251 Poure not by cups, but by the bellyfull. 1755 Smollett Quix. (1803) IV. 158, I never once had ...
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gutful
gutful dial. and slang. (ˈgʌtfʊl) Also gutsful. [f. gut n. + -ful.] = belly-ful.1900 Eng. Dial. Dict. II. 768/1 He's hungry when he's got a gutful (he is very stingy). 1932 N. Lindsay Cautious Amorist xvi. 226 Let me have some fun out of you to prove it's not a gutsful of grunts you are. 1960 I. Cro...
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wameful
wameful Sc. (ˈweɪmfʊl) [f. wame + -ful. Cf. wombful (Trevisa).] = belly-ful.[1513: see wame 1.] 1722 Ramsay Three Bonnets iv. 39 To drink his wamefu' o' the sea. 1786 Burns Ded. G. Hamilton 12 This may do..wi' them wha Maun please the Great-folk for a wamefou. 1824 Scott St. Ronan's x, A wame-fu' is...
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