Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Ptychocheilus oregonensis, a cyprinoid fish found in fresh waters of the Pacific coast of America tributary to the Columbia and Fraser rivers.
- noun In New South Wales, a fresh-water fish, Ctenolates auratus: called also
golden perch . - noun In Dunedin especially, and New Zealand generally, a large flounder, also called
lemon-sole or turbot. - noun A frog.
- noun A person born in the fens of Lincolnshire, in jesting reference to the frogs in the fens.
- noun A sole-like flounder, Rhombosolea leporina.
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- noun A
coward . - noun UK, slang Someone from
Lincolnshire .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The blogs resident ex-con bank robber and yellowbelly is the slime off the bottom of the cesspool. wiley Says:
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Stephen Walt is a yellowbelly and a sap sucking cowardly douchbag with a yellow stripe down his back a foot wide.
Matthew Yglesias » Olmert Claims to Control US Foreign Policy 2009
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Gee, Mr. Hack, the yellowbelly, now proudly states that he threatened to terminate with extreme prejudice a whole bank full of tellers.
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What yellowbelly Hack and Mr. El Cid fail to mention relative to the numbers they cite is that it includes Bedouins who were not permanent residents of what is now Israel but were nomads who just happened to be present when the census figures were taken.
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Mr. Hack has also called for the assassination of police officers but, yellowbelly that he is, when he had the opportunity to carry out his desires as the officers approached him, he meekly surrendered.
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But naturally everyone in town -- especially Hugh O'Brian, who struts around in a skin-tight buckskin shirt -- assumes that Glenn's a yellowbelly for leaving the Alamo, and wants to string him up.
Archive 2007-09-16 Bill Crider 2007
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But naturally everyone in town -- especially Hugh O'Brian, who struts around in a skin-tight buckskin shirt -- assumes that Glenn's a yellowbelly for leaving the Alamo, and wants to string him up.
The Man from the Alamo Bill Crider 2007
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Time Capsule says: yes and your all yellowbellies staying hidden in your bases, instead of protecting the Iraqi — yellowbelly cowards scared to come out,
Think Progress » U.S. military reports 40 percent spike in Baghdad attacks. 2006
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Besides the northern water shrew and the pika, Brown found the ermine, the Uinta chipmunk, the yellowbelly marmot, the bushytail woodrat, and nine other species of small mammals on mountaintops within the Great Basin.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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When the Panamints lost their last yellowbelly marmot, no incoming pikas made up the difference.
The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004
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