yellowbellyn.

Brit.

/ˈjɛləʊˌbɛli/, U.S.

/ˈjɛloʊˌbɛli/

Forms: see yellow adj. and n. and belly n.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: yellow adj., belly n.

Etymology: < yellow adj. + belly n.Attested earlier as a personal nickname:1731 Daily Courant 17 June The same Afternoon three Persons came to enquire for one Yellow-belly (who is supposed to be one of them that robbed the said Gentleman). With the uses denoting various animals (see senses 5, 6, and 8) compare earlier yellow-bellied adj. 1. With sense 4 compare slightly earlier yellow-bellied adj. 2b.

I. With reference to people.

a. English regional (eastern). A native or inhabitant of the Lincolnshire Fens, or (occasionally more generally) of the Fens of eastern England.Various reasons for the name have been suggested, including the fact that yellow-bellied frogs and eels are found in the Fens, that the uniform of the Lincolnshire Regiment includes the colour yellow, and that the Lincolnshire mail coach had a distinctive yellow body.

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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > British nation > English nation > [noun] > native or inhabitant of England > Fens

tiger?a1513

fenman1610

yellowbelly1746

web foot1765

slodger1827

fenner1844

fen-slodger1856

1746 T. Brecknock Poems & Odes 40 The Inhabitants of this Place being situated near the Fens, are not Strangers to the (perhaps undeserved) Epithets of Bog-Trotters, Yellow Bellies, Freckle-Bellies, and many of the like Signification.

1787 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. at Lincolnshire Yellow bellies. This is an appellation given to persons born in the Fens, who, it is jocularly said, have yellow bellies, like their eels.

1861 S. Smiles Lives Engineers I. i. ii. 33 Round the borders of the fens there lived a thin and haggard population of ‘Fen-slodgers’, called ‘yellow-bellies’ in other districts.

1881 J. W. Clark Cambridge i. 2 The amphibious population of the fen—‘yellow-bellies’, as their neighbours of terra firma contemptuously styled them—have become opulent and portly farmers.

1941 W. J. Blake Copperheads v. 499 Two aged farmers with Hodge whiskers around their shaved faces, ‘yellow-bellies’ from Lincolnshire.

1958 Gwerin June 11 The term ‘Fen Yellow-Belly’ is still not unknown in Cambridgeshire to-day.

2000 Independent (Nexis) 7 Feb. 15 Lincolnshire yellow-bellies are Viking-toughened stock, independent and slow to whinge.

2016 @PryorFrancis 14 Dec. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) You wouldn't have thought that [Charles Frederick] Worth came from the Lincolnshire Fens. But he did. We're sensitive, us Yellowbellies.

b. A native or inhabitant of County Wexford in Ireland.The name is sometimes attributed to the yellow sashes supposedly worn by men of Wexford when taking part in a hurling match held at the request of William III, one account of which is given in the source of quot. 1826.

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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Irish > [noun] > native or inhabitant of Ireland > part of Ireland

Ultagh1649

Corkonian?1770

southern1773

Ultonian1781

Northern Irishman1818

yellowbelly1826

Ulsterman1845

mountainy man1851

Ulsterite1920

Dub1973

1826 Dublin & London Mag. May 220 Every now an then the king an queen would cry out, ‘Well done, yallow bellies—fine fellows, yallow bellies!’ meaning our boys, who wore yallow handkerchiefs about their middles..from that day to this the people of the county Waxford are called ‘Yallow bellies’.

a1849 J. Keegan Legends & Poems (1907) 362 I would rather dig my daughter's grave..than see her tied to Lanty Wolfe, or any other yellow belly of the County Wexford.

1987 G. O'Brien Village of Longing viii. 124 Being by birth a Wexford-man (a ‘yellow-belly’; Georgie used to tease me with the Wexford nickname, which I found very upsetting).

2016 @Deirdrembrennan 26 Feb. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Why do most people on Wexford bus have american accents? I'm pretty sure they're all yellow bellies.

†2. U.S. (derogatory). A Mexican. Obsolete.

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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of Central America > [noun] > Mexico

Mexican1578

yellowbelly1842

Mex1847

Mexicano1847

cholo1860

bean-eater1919

Meskin1953

beaner1965

1842 Crescent City (New Orleans) 16 Mar. (Extra ed.) 1 God send that they bayonet every ‘yellow belly’ in the Mexican army.

1853 Alton (Illinois) Weekly Courier 30 Sept. There is no truer fogy than your genuine ‘yellow belly’.

1880 Chariton (Iowa) Patriot 26 May It was the earnest wish of all hands that we might either have a brush with the yellow-bellies, or else receive orders for more active and congenial duty.

3. A person of South-East or East Asian (especially Chinese or Japanese) ethnic origin; spec. a person of mixed white and Asian descent. Cf. yellow adj. 4a. Often derogatory and now offensive.

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the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > mixed race > [noun] > person

mongrel1542

of (the) half blood1697

half-caste1758

half-breed1760

lip-lap1798

quarter-breed1821

half-blood1826

half-and-half1827

quarter-blood1827

quarter-caste1859

mixed blooda1862

brown1862

miscegen1864

yellowbelly1867

breed1870

redbone1890

miscegenate1898

high yellow1910

samba1958

lightie1991

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Yellow-belly, a name given..occasionally to half-castes, &c.

1886 N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 38 There were ‘blue noses’ at one extremity, and at the other, Chinese, or ‘yellow bellies’.

1922 Sat. Evening Post 18 Mar. 9/3 He surveyed Wong critically and said with the frank directness of youth, ‘Far as I know there's nuttin in d'rules against it, but I don't think d'scoutmaster would take in a yella-belly.’

1934 ‘G. Orwell’ Burmese Days x. 155 They're Eurasians—sons of white fathers and native mothers. Yellow-bellies is our friendly nickname for them.

1959 J. Michener Hawaii v. 742 Am I supposed to take it if some local yokel calls me a slant-eyed yellow-belly?

2003 N. Revoyr Southland xv. 167 ‘Hello, Mack!’ the man called out cheerfully when he caught sight of Kenji. ‘You know, I've never seen a yellow belly in a uniform before.’

4. colloquial (originally U.S.). A coward. Cf. yellow adj. 3b.

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the mind > emotion > fear > cowardice or pusillanimity > [noun] > coward(s)

coward?a1289

hen-hearta1450

staniel?a1500

pigeon?1571

cow1581

quake-breech1584

cow-baby1594

custard1598

chicken heart1602

nidget1605

hen?1613

faintling1614

white-liver1614

chickena1616

quake-buttocka1627

skitterbrooka1652

dunghill1761

cow-heart1768

shy-cock1768

fugie1777

slag1788

man of chaff1799

fainter1826

possum1833

cowardy, cowardy, custard1836

sheep1840

white feather1857

funk1859

funkstick1860

lily-liver1860

faint-heart1870

willy boy1895

blert1905

squib1908

fraid cat (also fraidy cat)c1910–23

manso1912

feartie1923

yellowbelly1927

chicken liver1930

boneless wonder1931

scaredy-cat1933

sook1933

pantywaist1935

punk1939

ringtail1941

chickenshit1945

candy-ass1953

pansy-ass1963

unbrave1981

bottler1994

1927 F. M. Thrasher Gang iii. xv. 294 The coward receives the hated appellation of ‘yellow’ or ‘yellow belly’.

1938 J. Fante Wait until Spring, Bandini iv. 98 She was a yellow-belly, just plain yellow, passing the buck to him, afraid of Craik.

1972 ‘H. Howard’ Nice Day for Funeral ix. 128 She'd call me every kind of yellow belly if I suggested throwing in my hand.

2015 Times (Nexis) 3 Oct. (Saturday Review) 32 Faversham decides to..undertake a perilous mission to prove once and for all that he is no yellow belly.

II. With reference to animals.

5. Any of various fishes with yellow underparts, esp. the golden perch, Macquaria ambigua.

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the world > animals > fish > miscellaneous types > [noun]

mudfish1502

sprat1552

frogfish1598

rockfish1605

yellowtaila1622

sleeper1668

picarel1688

hogfish1735

porkfish1735

sucker1753

zebrafish1771

yellowbelly1775

white steenbras1801

stone-toter1817

stargazer1842

warehou1848

baardman1853

goatfish1864

holostome1864

spot snapper1876

suck-fish1876

mademoiselle1882

queenfish1883

cigar-fish1884

emperor fish1884

rock beauty1885

oilfish1896

aholehole1897

berrugate1898

Photoblepharon1902

sweet-lip1934

rabbitfish1941

redbait1960

the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Serranidae (sea-bass) > [noun] > member of Oligorus or Plectroplites (Murray perch)

grouper1615

butterfish1673

yellowbelly1775

Murray perch1880

callop1907

the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Centrarchidae (sun-fish) > [noun] > member of genus Lepomis (sun-fish)

bream1634

roach1637

sunfish1685

round robin1709

yellowbelly1775

redbelly1791

brim1795

sun perch1804

pumpkin seed1815

sunny1835

bluegill1877

redbreast1877

tobacco-box1877

red-eared sunfish1889

shell-cracker1889

sun1896

redear1931

the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [noun] > genus Salmo > salmo salar (salmon) > in third year

mortc1490

trout1604

yellowbelly1775

salmon mort1893

the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Pleuronectiformes (flat-fish) > [noun] > family Pleuronectidae > genus Pleuronectes > member of

yellowbelly1775

patiki1834

fool-fish1842

whiff1867

1775 J. Rymer Sentiments on Reviewers ii, in Descr. Island of Nevis 41 Our steward dropt his fish-pots last night; they were hauled up this morning, and found to contain, doctors, old-wives, coblers, welsh-men, yellow bellies, balla hoos, parrot fish, and balloch-biters.

1879 Western Champion (Barcaldine, Queensland) 8 Nov. The perch, sometimes called the ‘yellow belly’, takes the bait similarly to the pike in English waters.

1890 Science 28 Feb. 141/2 A sole (Peltorhamphus novæ-zealandiæ) and a sole-like flounder (Rhombosolea leporina), commonly known as ‘yellow-belly’, are also frequently caught.

1899 E. W. Prevost Dickinson's Gloss. Words & Phrases Cumberlan (new ed.) 370/2 Yalla belly, a young salmon-trout returning from the sea.

1918 Tomearm June 32/2 One of the natives..pronounced them a small species of Yellowbelly, which accounts for the lack of flavor..when the fish was cooked.

1950 G. Farwell Land of Mirage 67 They would..fish for bream and yellow-bellies in the placid centre of the lake.

1991 Field & Stream Apr. 98/1 This is the redbreast sunfish, Lepomis auritus, variously called yellowbreast, yellowbelly, leatherear, robin perch, hornear, and a host of other names.

2015 Balonne (Queensland) Beacon (Nexis) 8 Oct. 20 Bag loads of yellowbelly and carp were weighed in at the showground on Saturday afternoon.

†6. A frog. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > animals > amphibians > order Anura or Salienta (frogs and toads) > [noun] > frog

froshc1000

frouda1200

toada1300

paddockc1300

paddoc1480

hipfrog1611

croaker1651

Dutch nightingale1769

froggy?1800

fen-nightingalea1825

yellowbellyc1825

greenback1876

c1825 Village Dialogue Bull-baiting: Pt. 2 (Houlston Tracts, No. 28) 4 The Frenchman's soupe-maigre and fricasseed yellow-bellies.

7. Tortoiseshell of a uniform yellow colour, typically obtained from the ventral shell of the hawksbill turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata.

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the world > animals > reptiles > order Chelonia (turtles and tortoises) > [noun] > tortoise or land turtle > unspecified and miscellaneous types of

yellowbelly1843

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > other animal raw materials > [noun] > tortoise- or turtle-shell

tortoiseshell1632

turtle-shell1828

yellowbelly1905

1843 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. I. 127 (note) The Yellow Belly, which plates are very thin and yellow.

1899 Leisure Hour July 606/2 The material prepared from the under-surface of a turtle, and because of its uniform colour called in trade ‘yellow-belly’, is more valuable than all but the very finest prepared from the upper plates of the reptile.

1905 Times 15 Sept. 11/5 Tortoiseshell,..yellowbelly about 5s. dearer.

2004 C. J. Bell Collecting Victorian Jewelry 20/1 Both the mottled upper shell and the lower ‘yellow belly’ are used for ornamental purposes.

8. Originally: †the great crested flycatcher, Myiarchus crinitus, a tyrant flycatcher native to eastern and central North America, which has a small crest, brown upperparts, a grey breast and throat, and a yellow belly (obsolete). In later use (more fully yellow-belly flycatcher): the yellow-bellied flycatcher, Empidonax flaviventris (now rare).

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1847 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 20 330 Tyrannus crinitus, Linn. (Yellow-belly.)..This bird..feeds on insects and larvæ; has none of the twitter belonging or peculiar to the flycatcher tribe.

1878 Forest & Stream 24 Oct. 239/1 Mr. Osborne also related his experience in finding the nest and eggs of the yellow-belly fly-catcher (Empidonax flaviventris) at Grand Menan, N. B.

1890 B. Torrey in Atlantic Monthly Aug. 250/2 In his notes, the yellow-belly may be said to take after both the least flycatcher and the wood pewee.

1919 H. Harris Birds of Kansas City Region in Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis 23 280 The Yellow-belly may not be as rare during migration as the few records seem to show.

1991 S. D. Robbins Wisconsin Birdlife ii. 378/1 As a breeding bird the Yellow-belly has long since been gone from southern Wisconsin.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	yellowbelly
释义	yellowbellyn. Brit. /ˈjɛləʊˌbɛli/, U.S. /ˈjɛloʊˌbɛli/ Forms: see yellow adj. and n. and belly n. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: yellow adj., belly n. Etymology: < yellow adj. + belly n.Attested earlier as a personal nickname:1731 Daily Courant 17 June The same Afternoon three Persons came to enquire for one Yellow-belly (who is supposed to be one of them that robbed the said Gentleman). With the uses denoting various animals (see senses 5, 6, and 8) compare earlier yellow-bellied adj. 1. With sense 4 compare slightly earlier yellow-bellied adj. 2b. I. With reference to people. 1. a. English regional (eastern). A native or inhabitant of the Lincolnshire Fens, or (occasionally more generally) of the Fens of eastern England.Various reasons for the name have been suggested, including the fact that yellow-bellied frogs and eels are found in the Fens, that the uniform of the Lincolnshire Regiment includes the colour yellow, and that the Lincolnshire mail coach had a distinctive yellow body. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > British nation > English nation > [noun] > native or inhabitant of England > Fens tiger?a1513 fenman1610 yellowbelly1746 web foot1765 slodger1827 fenner1844 fen-slodger1856 1746 T. Brecknock Poems & Odes 40 The Inhabitants of this Place being situated near the Fens, are not Strangers to the (perhaps undeserved) Epithets of Bog-Trotters, Yellow Bellies, Freckle-Bellies, and many of the like Signification. 1787 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. at Lincolnshire Yellow bellies. This is an appellation given to persons born in the Fens, who, it is jocularly said, have yellow bellies, like their eels. 1861 S. Smiles Lives Engineers I. i. ii. 33 Round the borders of the fens there lived a thin and haggard population of ‘Fen-slodgers’, called ‘yellow-bellies’ in other districts. 1881 J. W. Clark Cambridge i. 2 The amphibious population of the fen—‘yellow-bellies’, as their neighbours of terra firma contemptuously styled them—have become opulent and portly farmers. 1941 W. J. Blake Copperheads v. 499 Two aged farmers with Hodge whiskers around their shaved faces, ‘yellow-bellies’ from Lincolnshire. 1958 Gwerin June 11 The term ‘Fen Yellow-Belly’ is still not unknown in Cambridgeshire to-day. 2000 Independent (Nexis) 7 Feb. 15 Lincolnshire yellow-bellies are Viking-toughened stock, independent and slow to whinge. 2016 @PryorFrancis 14 Dec. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) You wouldn't have thought that [Charles Frederick] Worth came from the Lincolnshire Fens. But he did. We're sensitive, us Yellowbellies. b. A native or inhabitant of County Wexford in Ireland.The name is sometimes attributed to the yellow sashes supposedly worn by men of Wexford when taking part in a hurling match held at the request of William III, one account of which is given in the source of quot. 1826. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Irish > [noun] > native or inhabitant of Ireland > part of Ireland Ultagh1649 Corkonian?1770 southern1773 Ultonian1781 Northern Irishman1818 yellowbelly1826 Ulsterman1845 mountainy man1851 Ulsterite1920 Dub1973 1826 Dublin & London Mag. May 220 Every now an then the king an queen would cry out, ‘Well done, yallow bellies—fine fellows, yallow bellies!’ meaning our boys, who wore yallow handkerchiefs about their middles..from that day to this the people of the county Waxford are called ‘Yallow bellies’. a1849 J. Keegan Legends & Poems (1907) 362 I would rather dig my daughter's grave..than see her tied to Lanty Wolfe, or any other yellow belly of the County Wexford. 1987 G. O'Brien Village of Longing viii. 124 Being by birth a Wexford-man (a ‘yellow-belly’; Georgie used to tease me with the Wexford nickname, which I found very upsetting). 2016 @Deirdrembrennan 26 Feb. in twitter.com (O.E.D. Archive) Why do most people on Wexford bus have american accents? I'm pretty sure they're all yellow bellies. †2. U.S. (derogatory). A Mexican. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of Central America > [noun] > Mexico Mexican1578 yellowbelly1842 Mex1847 Mexicano1847 cholo1860 bean-eater1919 Meskin1953 beaner1965 1842 Crescent City (New Orleans) 16 Mar. (Extra ed.) 1 God send that they bayonet every ‘yellow belly’ in the Mexican army. 1853 Alton (Illinois) Weekly Courier 30 Sept. There is no truer fogy than your genuine ‘yellow belly’. 1880 Chariton (Iowa) Patriot 26 May It was the earnest wish of all hands that we might either have a brush with the yellow-bellies, or else receive orders for more active and congenial duty. 3. A person of South-East or East Asian (especially Chinese or Japanese) ethnic origin; spec. a person of mixed white and Asian descent. Cf. yellow adj. 4a. Often derogatory and now offensive. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > mixed race > [noun] > person mongrel1542 of (the) half blood1697 half-caste1758 half-breed1760 lip-lap1798 quarter-breed1821 half-blood1826 half-and-half1827 quarter-blood1827 quarter-caste1859 mixed blooda1862 brown1862 miscegen1864 yellowbelly1867 breed1870 redbone1890 miscegenate1898 high yellow1910 samba1958 lightie1991 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Yellow-belly, a name given..occasionally to half-castes, &c. 1886 N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 38 There were ‘blue noses’ at one extremity, and at the other, Chinese, or ‘yellow bellies’. 1922 Sat. Evening Post 18 Mar. 9/3 He surveyed Wong critically and said with the frank directness of youth, ‘Far as I know there's nuttin in d'rules against it, but I don't think d'scoutmaster would take in a yella-belly.’ 1934 ‘G. Orwell’ Burmese Days x. 155 They're Eurasians—sons of white fathers and native mothers. Yellow-bellies is our friendly nickname for them. 1959 J. Michener Hawaii v. 742 Am I supposed to take it if some local yokel calls me a slant-eyed yellow-belly? 2003 N. Revoyr Southland xv. 167 ‘Hello, Mack!’ the man called out cheerfully when he caught sight of Kenji. ‘You know, I've never seen a yellow belly in a uniform before.’ 4. colloquial (originally U.S.). A coward. Cf. yellow adj. 3b. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > cowardice or pusillanimity > [noun] > coward(s) coward?a1289 hen-hearta1450 staniel?a1500 pigeon?1571 cow1581 quake-breech1584 cow-baby1594 custard1598 chicken heart1602 nidget1605 hen?1613 faintling1614 white-liver1614 chickena1616 quake-buttocka1627 skitterbrooka1652 dunghill1761 cow-heart1768 shy-cock1768 fugie1777 slag1788 man of chaff1799 fainter1826 possum1833 cowardy, cowardy, custard1836 sheep1840 white feather1857 funk1859 funkstick1860 lily-liver1860 faint-heart1870 willy boy1895 blert1905 squib1908 fraid cat (also fraidy cat)c1910–23 manso1912 feartie1923 yellowbelly1927 chicken liver1930 boneless wonder1931 scaredy-cat1933 sook1933 pantywaist1935 punk1939 ringtail1941 chickenshit1945 candy-ass1953 pansy-ass1963 unbrave1981 bottler1994 1927 F. M. Thrasher Gang iii. xv. 294 The coward receives the hated appellation of ‘yellow’ or ‘yellow belly’. 1938 J. Fante Wait until Spring, Bandini iv. 98 She was a yellow-belly, just plain yellow, passing the buck to him, afraid of Craik. 1972 ‘H. Howard’ Nice Day for Funeral ix. 128 She'd call me every kind of yellow belly if I suggested throwing in my hand. 2015 Times (Nexis) 3 Oct. (Saturday Review) 32 Faversham decides to..undertake a perilous mission to prove once and for all that he is no yellow belly. II. With reference to animals. 5. Any of various fishes with yellow underparts, esp. the golden perch, Macquaria ambigua. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > miscellaneous types > [noun] mudfish1502 sprat1552 frogfish1598 rockfish1605 yellowtaila1622 sleeper1668 picarel1688 hogfish1735 porkfish1735 sucker1753 zebrafish1771 yellowbelly1775 white steenbras1801 stone-toter1817 stargazer1842 warehou1848 baardman1853 goatfish1864 holostome1864 spot snapper1876 suck-fish1876 mademoiselle1882 queenfish1883 cigar-fish1884 emperor fish1884 rock beauty1885 oilfish1896 aholehole1897 berrugate1898 Photoblepharon1902 sweet-lip1934 rabbitfish1941 redbait1960 the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Serranidae (sea-bass) > [noun] > member of Oligorus or Plectroplites (Murray perch) grouper1615 butterfish1673 yellowbelly1775 Murray perch1880 callop1907 the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Centrarchidae (sun-fish) > [noun] > member of genus Lepomis (sun-fish) bream1634 roach1637 sunfish1685 round robin1709 yellowbelly1775 redbelly1791 brim1795 sun perch1804 pumpkin seed1815 sunny1835 bluegill1877 redbreast1877 tobacco-box1877 red-eared sunfish1889 shell-cracker1889 sun1896 redear1931 the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [noun] > genus Salmo > salmo salar (salmon) > in third year mortc1490 trout1604 yellowbelly1775 salmon mort1893 the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Pleuronectiformes (flat-fish) > [noun] > family Pleuronectidae > genus Pleuronectes > member of yellowbelly1775 patiki1834 fool-fish1842 whiff1867 1775 J. Rymer Sentiments on Reviewers ii, in Descr. Island of Nevis 41 Our steward dropt his fish-pots last night; they were hauled up this morning, and found to contain, doctors, old-wives, coblers, welsh-men, yellow bellies, balla hoos, parrot fish, and balloch-biters. 1879 Western Champion (Barcaldine, Queensland) 8 Nov. The perch, sometimes called the ‘yellow belly’, takes the bait similarly to the pike in English waters. 1890 Science 28 Feb. 141/2 A sole (Peltorhamphus novæ-zealandiæ) and a sole-like flounder (Rhombosolea leporina), commonly known as ‘yellow-belly’, are also frequently caught. 1899 E. W. Prevost Dickinson's Gloss. Words & Phrases Cumberlan (new ed.) 370/2 Yalla belly, a young salmon-trout returning from the sea. 1918 Tomearm June 32/2 One of the natives..pronounced them a small species of Yellowbelly, which accounts for the lack of flavor..when the fish was cooked. 1950 G. Farwell Land of Mirage 67 They would..fish for bream and yellow-bellies in the placid centre of the lake. 1991 Field & Stream Apr. 98/1 This is the redbreast sunfish, Lepomis auritus, variously called yellowbreast, yellowbelly, leatherear, robin perch, hornear, and a host of other names. 2015 Balonne (Queensland) Beacon (Nexis) 8 Oct. 20 Bag loads of yellowbelly and carp were weighed in at the showground on Saturday afternoon. †6. A frog. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > amphibians > order Anura or Salienta (frogs and toads) > [noun] > frog froshc1000 frouda1200 toada1300 paddockc1300 paddoc1480 hipfrog1611 croaker1651 Dutch nightingale1769 froggy?1800 fen-nightingalea1825 yellowbellyc1825 greenback1876 c1825 Village Dialogue Bull-baiting: Pt. 2 (Houlston Tracts, No. 28) 4 The Frenchman's soupe-maigre and fricasseed yellow-bellies. 7. Tortoiseshell of a uniform yellow colour, typically obtained from the ventral shell of the hawksbill turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > order Chelonia (turtles and tortoises) > [noun] > tortoise or land turtle > unspecified and miscellaneous types of yellowbelly1843 society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > other animal raw materials > [noun] > tortoise- or turtle-shell tortoiseshell1632 turtle-shell1828 yellowbelly1905 1843 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. I. 127 (note) The Yellow Belly, which plates are very thin and yellow. 1899 Leisure Hour July 606/2 The material prepared from the under-surface of a turtle, and because of its uniform colour called in trade ‘yellow-belly’, is more valuable than all but the very finest prepared from the upper plates of the reptile. 1905 Times 15 Sept. 11/5 Tortoiseshell,..yellowbelly about 5s. dearer. 2004 C. J. Bell Collecting Victorian Jewelry 20/1 Both the mottled upper shell and the lower ‘yellow belly’ are used for ornamental purposes. 8. Originally: †the great crested flycatcher, Myiarchus crinitus, a tyrant flycatcher native to eastern and central North America, which has a small crest, brown upperparts, a grey breast and throat, and a yellow belly (obsolete). In later use (more fully yellow-belly flycatcher): the yellow-bellied flycatcher, Empidonax flaviventris (now rare). ΚΠ 1847 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 20 330 Tyrannus crinitus, Linn. (Yellow-belly.)..This bird..feeds on insects and larvæ; has none of the twitter belonging or peculiar to the flycatcher tribe. 1878 Forest & Stream 24 Oct. 239/1 Mr. Osborne also related his experience in finding the nest and eggs of the yellow-belly fly-catcher (Empidonax flaviventris) at Grand Menan, N. B. 1890 B. Torrey in Atlantic Monthly Aug. 250/2 In his notes, the yellow-belly may be said to take after both the least flycatcher and the wood pewee. 1919 H. Harris Birds of Kansas City Region in Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis 23 280 The Yellow-belly may not be as rare during migration as the few records seem to show. 1991 S. D. Robbins Wisconsin Birdlife ii. 378/1 As a breeding bird the Yellow-belly has long since been gone from southern Wisconsin. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1746
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