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sourbelly

noun

Etymology

From sour + belly.

  1. derived from *bʰelǵʰ-✻ — “to swell, blow up”
  2. inherited from *balgiz✻
  3. inherited from *balgi✻
  4. inherited from bielġ — “bag, pouch, bulge”
  5. inherited from bely
  6. compounded as sourbelly — “sour + belly”

Definitions

  1. A cantankerous person.

    • You are an old sourbelly this evening. What's the matter? — John Dos Passos, Michael Clark, Streets of Night (1990)

  2. Alternative spelling of sowbelly.

    • Their supplies were down to a dog tent, five plugs of chewing tobacco, four beans, and a slab of sourbelly. — Walter Vaughan, The Life and Work of Sir William Van Horne (1920)

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA