10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GORBELLY»
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Dictionary of obsolete and provincial English: containing ...
Gorbelly, s. A person with a large belly. A. sepulchre to seafish and others in
ponds, moates, and rivers ; a sharp sheepe-biter, and marveilous mutton monger,
a gorbelly glutton. Man in Ike Moone, 1609. The belching gorbelly hath well nigh
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The Works of William Shakspeare: The Text Formed from an ...
E. Guilpin, in his " Skialetheia," 1598, Sat. iii. employs the word " gorbelly," to
signify a part of dress, doubtless giving the wearer an appearance of corpulency :
" Like the French quarter slop, the gorbelly, The long stockt hose, or close
Venetian.
William Shakespeare, 1844
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Manipulus vocabulorum. A dictionarie of English and Latine ...
A gorbelly. ventru." — Sherwood. " The belching gorbelly hath well nigh killed me
." — Lingua, (Old Plays, v. 213). Gore, sb. the lap, 174 7 " An elf quene shal my
lemman be, And slepe under my gore." — Chaucer, Rime of S Thopas. "Goore of
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Peter Levens, Henry Benjamin Wheatley, 1867
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The works of William Shakespeare, the text formed from an ...
Guilpin, in his " Skialetheia," 1598, Sat. iii. employs the word " gorbelly," to signify
a part of dress, doubtless giving the wearer an appearance of corpulency : " Like
the French quarter slop, the gorbelly, The long stockt hose, or close Venetian.
William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier, 1844
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Works of the Camden Society
Baret. Gorbelye, sb, a glutton, 99 25 “ Gorbealy. ventriosus. gorbealied glotton.
дойдя-{в heluo."-Huloet. " A gorbelly. "шиш—Мелодией “ The belching gorbelly
hath well nigh killed люд—[трлн (01d Plays, v. 213). Gore, sb. the lap, 174 7 “ An
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The Works: The Text Formed from an Entirely New Collation of ...
E. Guilpin, in his “ Skialetheia," 1598, Sat. iii. employs the word “ gorbelly,” to
signify a part of dress, doubtless giving the wearer an appearance of corpulency:
“ Like the French quarter slop, the gorbelly, The long stockt hose, or close
Venetian.
William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier, 1844
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The Works of William Shakespeare: The Text Formed from an ...
... in Derbyshire it should seem that the word gorrel-bellied, for pot-bellied, is a
word yet employed. No etymology is given by our lexicographers for gorrel. In "
Lingua," (Dodsley 's Old Plays, last edit. v. 1 89,) " a gorbelly " signifies a glutton.
William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier, 1842
A gorbelly. ventru." — Sherwood. " The belching gorbelly hath well nigh killed me
." — Lingua, (Old Plavs, v. 213). Gore, tb. the lap, 174 7 " An elf quene shal my
lemman be, And slepe under my gore." — Chaucer, Rime of S Thopas. ' ' Goore
of ...
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Manipulus vocabulorum: A dictionary of English and Latin ...
Baret. Gorbelye, sb, a glutton, 99 25 " Gorbealy. ventriosus. — gorbealied glotton.
doliaris heluo. " — Huloet. " A gorbelly. ventru." — Sherwood. " The belching
gorbelly hath well nigh killed me." — Lingua, (Old Plavs, v. 213). Gore, sb. the lap
, ...
Peter Levens, Henry Benjamin Wheatley, 1867
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A Supplement to Johnson's English Dictionary: Of which the ...
GORBELLY. n. A term of reproach for a fat man." The belching gorbelly hath well-
nigh killed me Brewer's Lingua. GO'RDIAN. adj. [from the Gordtan knot.] Intricate.
Close the serpent sty Insinuating, wove with Gordian twine His braided train.
George Mason, Samuel Johnson, 1801
