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belly-god

belly-god noun: a supposed god of appetite, food, and eating.

Noun

belly-god (plural belly-gods)

  1. A supposed god of appetite, food, and eating.
    • The deck-hands were Cantonese, and, as is well known to worshippers of the belly-god, they eat their rice seasoned.1936 January 1, The World's New, Sydney, page 19, column 2
    • For the moment speech failed him, so active were his gastric Juices. The belly god in him was passionately aroused.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 181
  2. (obsolete) A lover of food; a glutton; an epicure. See Thesaurus:glutton

Forms of belly-god

pluralbelly-gods

Questions about belly-god

What does belly-god mean?
Belly-god means a supposed god of appetite, food, and eating.
What part of speech is belly-god?
Belly-god is a noun.
What is the plural of belly-god?
The plural of belly-god is belly-gods.

Words near belly-god in the dictionary

  1. belly-dancing
  2. belly-dumper
  3. belly-dumpers
  4. belly-flop
  5. belly-flops
  6. belly-god
  7. belly-gods
  8. belly-tember
  9. belly-timber
  10. belly-timbers
  11. belly-timmer

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