1915 15 July 307 And tha, rainin' a cloud of dust up the trail, was a young army of pepper-belly sojers.
1948 B. Griffith iii. ii. 286 When I came home to California and got kicked out of a restaurant.., and a little blonde cutie says ‘We don't serve pepperbellies in here’, well, I wanted to tear that place apart.
2001 (Electronic ed.) 21 Sept. b1 He and his family reunited and settled in Hobbs, a mostly white town in southeast New Mexico. His English was poor. He fought with fellow students who called him ‘pepper belly’ and worse.