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slow-belly
[f. slow a.]
A lazy, idle, or indolent person; a sluggard, laggard. Chiefly pl.
After Gr. γαστέρες ἀργαί, in the line attributed to Epimenides and quoted in the Epistle to Titus. Tindale's rendering is followed by Coverdale, etc.; but the Rheims version has ‘slothful bellies’, and the R.V. ‘idle gluttons’.
[1526Tindale Titus i. 12 The Cretayns are..evyll beastes, and slowe belies.] 1607Hieron Wks. I. 271 The maintenance of a sort of slow-bellies, whose seruice to Gods church was altogether vnprofitable. 1656Baxter Reformed Pastor 248 To be a Bishop or Pastor is not..as idle slow-bellies to live to our fleshly delight and ease. 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 170 He derides and tells him he is no slowbelly, to desire to expire lazily on a Bed. 1865Athenæum 20 May 681/2 They are no longer slow-bellies, for in many places they had eaten up all that could be called food. 1899Kipling Stalky 27 Such boys,..evil-speakers, liars, slow-bellies—yea, incipient drunkards.
attrib.1647Trapp Marrow Gd. Authors in Comm. Ep. 619 ‘Rebuke them sharply,’..saith S. Paul of those slow⁓belly Cretians. |