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* From yellow + belly. * (someone from Lincolnshire or Isle of Ely): An allusion to the frogs and yellow-bellied eels caught there.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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* From yellow + belly. * (someone from Lincolnshire or Isle of Ely): An allusion to the frogs and yellow-bellied eels caught there.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.