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单词 brewer's goitre
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Definition of brewer's goitre in English:

brewer's goitre

noun
Australian, NZ informal
  • A fat stomach caused by excessive consumption of beer.

    he sat back, his brewer's goitre slung over his belt
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He wore a plumcoloured waistcoat suffering from a bad attack of brewer's goitre.
    • He smoothed his brewer's goitre with slow, careful hands.
    • The landlord beamed bucolic above his outsize brewer's goitre.
    • I wondered how a person could answer to the description 'spindle shanked and herring gutted' yet still run to a brewer's goitre.
    • There's no doubt at all that beer produces a 'brewer's goitre' if you drink enough of it.
    • The nickname referred to his impressive chest which he carried low, and which the unkind called a brewer's goitre.
    • As inexorably as the 'brewer's goitre', the problem re-emerged.
    • He had a brewer's goitre, the beer belly hauled in by an ineffectual belt.
    • He carried a good deal of his weight in front, what the diggers called "Brewer's goitre."
    • No mention of alcohol is complete without a reference to its side effects as an additional food-intake which causes the development of excess body fat and the well known "brewer's goitre".
 
 
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