gorbellied

comparative more gorbellied · superlative most gorbellied · alternative gorrel-bellied

1. having a gorbelly; fat; potbellied

   Hang ye, gorbellied knaves, are ye undone? / No, ye fat chuffs I would your store were here!

   a. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1, act 2, scene 2

   3 more examples

   O, 'tis an unconscionable vast gorbellied volume, bigger bulked than a Dutch hoy, & far more boisterous and cumbersome than a pair of Swissers' omnipotent galiass-breeches.

   1596, Thomas Nashe, Have with You to Saffron-Walden

   Some of your gorbellied country chuffes have cast themselves into their frieze jerkins, with great tin buttons silver'd o'r.

   1618, Barten Holyday, Technogamia

   "Get tha gone out on't, tha gurt guttling gor-bellied mazy-jack!" she observed acrimoniously.

   1876, Oliver Madox-Brown, The Dwale Bluth

   Synonyms: overweight