Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who makes a god of his belly, that is, whose great business or pleasure is to gratify his appetite; a glutton; an epicure: as, “Apicius, a famous belly-god, ”
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One whose great pleasure it is to gratify his appetite; a glutton; an epicure.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A lover of
food ; aglutton ; anepicure .
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Examples
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On the other hand, the divine could not help regarding his new friend as something of an epicure or belly-god, nor could he observe in him either the perfect education, or the polished bearing, which mark the gentleman of rank, and of which, while he mingled with the world, he had become a competent judge.
Saint Ronan's Well 2008
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Glendinning; — “a base belly-god, to come here to eat the best, and practise on our lives that give it to him!”
The Monastery 2008
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Doest thou make our Lord a drinker, and a curious quaffer of wines, as if he were a glutton, a belly-god, or
The Decameron 2004
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Occasionally he indulges in such uncomplimentary expressions as "There is no flummery-maker equal to you," while some are hailed with "Long life to you, glutton, gormandizer, and belly-god."
History of English Humour, Vol. 1 (of 2) With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange 1873
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I had never been in England before, and mighty little I thought of it when I became acquainted with that proud, belly-god country.
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861
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Bonner issued his injunctions than Bale denounced him in a fierce reply as "a beastly belly-god and damnable dung-hill."
History of the English People Volume 4 (of 8) John Richard Green 1860
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He was under the guidance of an elderly, drinking sort of person -- one of the fat, beefy class, whose worship of the belly-god has given an unhappy distension to that ambitious though most erring member.
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"Swear by wine and wastel-bread, for these are the props of _thy_ life, thou greedy Southron!" said Dame Glendinning; -- "a base belly-god, to come here to eat the best, and practise on our lives that give it to him!"
The Monastery Walter Scott 1801
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On the other hand, the divine could not help regarding his new friend as something of an epicure or belly-god, nor could he observe in him either the perfect education, or the polished bearing, which mark the gentleman of rank, and of which, while he mingled with the world, he had become a competent judge.
St. Ronan's Well Walter Scott 1801
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But Mr. Row no way dismayed, knowing what vices Scoon was chargeable with, particularly that he was a great belly-god, drew his picture so like the life, and condemned what was culpable in it with so much severity, that Scoon thought fit to sit down, and even to cover his face.
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