belly-god

plural belly-gods

1. A supposed god of appetite, food, and eating.

   The deck-hands were Cantonese, and, as is well known to worshippers of the belly-god, they eat their rice seasoned.

   1936 January 1, The World's New, Sydney, page 19, column 2

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   For the moment speech failed him, so active were his gastric Juices. The belly god in him was passionately aroused.

   1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 181

2. obsoleteA lover of food; a glutton; an epicure. See Thesaurus:glutton