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gorbelly
† ˈgorbelly, n. (and a.) Obs. exc. dial. [? f. gor, gore n.1 (sense 1) + belly. Cf. Sw. dial. går-bälg.] † 1. A protuberant belly. Obs.1519 W. Horman Vulg. 30 He had a fatte necke and a gorbely. 1601 Cornwallyes Ess. ii. xxviii. (1631) 22 As if there had beene no grace but in a gorbelly. 1615 T. Ada...
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gorbellied
† ˈgorbellied, a. Obs. [f. gorbelly + -ed2.] Having a protuberant belly; corpulent.a 1529 Skelton Agst. Garnesche ii. 36 Gup, gorbellyd Godfrey! 1538 Elyot Dict., Doliaris heluo, a gorbelyed glutton. 1542 Udall Erasm. Apophth. 110 a, A great gorrebealyed chuff. a 1557 M. Basset tr. More on the Passi...
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gormaw
gormaw Sc. and north. dial. Also 8–9 gorma(h, 9 gormer, gormow. See also goul-mau. [? f. gore n.1 + maw; cf. gorbelly.] The cormorant.1500–20 Dunbar Poems xxxiii. 77 The golk, the gormaw, and the gled, Beft him with buffettis quhill he bled. 1722 Ramsay Eagle & Robin Redbr. 15 Greidy Gleds and slie ...
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gorrel
† gorrel Obs. Also 4, 6–7 gorrell, 5 gorell, (7 gorill). [a. OF. gorel, gorreau, a pig, hog, related to OF. gore fem., sow: of unknown origin.] 1. A fat-paunched person.1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. vii. xiii. (1495) 232 Crampe that comyth of replycyon fallyth ofte to fatte men and flesshly and well f...
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panguts
† ˈpanguts Obs. [app. f. pan- all + guts.]1617 Minsheu Ductor, A Panguts,..an vnweldie Drossel nothing but guts. 1658 Phillips, A Panguts (as it were all guts), a drossel, a gorbelly, an unwieldy fellow. 1704 Cocker, Pangut, or Paunchgut, a huge fat bellied fellow. 1775 Ash, Panguts (s. a low word),...
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mutton-monger
mutton-monger slang. [f. mutton (sense 4) + monger.] 1. A whoremonger. Now Obs. or rare.1532 More Confut. Tindale Wks. 366/1 Motenmongers, priapistes, ydolaters, whoremaisters. 1542 Udall Erasm. Apoph. 151 b, One Didymo (who..had in euery bodyes mouth a veraye eiuil name of beeyng a muttonmoungre). ...
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wallow
▪ I. wallow, n. (ˈwɒləʊ) In 6 walow. [f. wallow v.] 1. a. The act of wallowing or rolling in mud or filth; also fig. Also concr., the filth in which swine wallow.a 1591 H. Smith Serm., Jacob's Ladder (1601) 545 Let the dog turne to the vomit, and the swine to the walow. 1896 G. S. Ogilvie Sin of St....
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