Meanings
adjectivegorrel-bellied (comparative more gorrel-bellied, superlative most gorrel-bellied)
comparative more gorrel-bellied · superlative most gorrel-bellied
- alternativeobsoleteAlternative form of gorbellied.
Mercurye the nimble poſt of heaven, / Stood ſtill to ſee the quarrell; / Gorrel-bellyed Bacchus, gyant-like, / Beſtryd a ſtrong-beere barrell.
1765, Thomas Percy, compiler, “Old Tom of Bedlam: Mad Song the First”, in Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: […], volume II, London: […] J[ames] Dodsley […], →OCLC, book III, page 345, lines 37–40
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