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† 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.
1519W. Horman Vulg. 30 He had a fatte necke and a gorbely. 1601Cornwallyes Ess. ii. xxviii. (1631) 22 As if there had beene no grace but in a gorbelly. 1615T. Adams Sacrifice of Thank. 18 The Epicure hath a gorbelly. 1674J. Josselyn Voy. New Eng. 21 Finding her [a she-wolf's] Gor-belly stuft with flesh newly taken in. 1725Bailey Erasm. Colloq. 133 About the size of Vultures..with crooked Beaks and Gor-bellies. 1790Burke Corr. (1844) III. 144 Falstaff, reproaching the Londoners..with their gore-bellies.
b. nonce-use. A garment with a loose belly.
1598E. Guilpin Skial. (1878) 48 The French quarter slop, or the gorbelly, The long stockt hose, or close Venetian.
2. A person with a protuberant belly.
1530Palsgr. 429/1 Se this gorbely, he is so shorte wynded that he can scarsely speke. 1580North Plutarch (1676) 189 They haue called him..gorebelly, and hook-nosed. 1607Brewer Lingua v. ii, The belching gor-belly hath well nigh killed me. 1694Motteux Rabelais v. (1737) 216 Fat, pursy Gorbellies. 1886Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk., Gorbelly, an over-corpulent person. (Very com.)
†3. attrib. passing into adj. = gorbellied a. Obs.
1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 641/1 Y⊇ church had not prouided for gorbeli glottons. 1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 222 b, What if Landes and possessions long times englutted with gorbelly Mouncks became a pray to the spoylers. 1603Dekker Wonderfull Yeare F ij, My gorbelly Host leapt halfe a yarde from the coarse. |