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victualling-offices

victualling-offices is the plural of victualling-office.

Meaning of victualling-office

Noun

victualling-office (plural victualling-offices)

  1. (archaic, humorous, slang) Synonym of breadbasket (“the abdomen or stomach, especially as a vulnerable part of the body in an attack”).
    • His strength and stamina were doubted; he was a youth of not more than 19 years of age, nearly six feet high, 12 stone in weight, but thought to have more gristle than bone: his victualling office had also been some time out of commission; […]1818, Pierce Egan, Boxiana; or, Sketches of Antient and Modern Pugilism, page 292
    Synonyms:
    breadbasket

Questions about victualling-offices

What is victualling-offices the plural of?
Victualling-offices is the plural of victualling-office.

Words near victualling-offices in the dictionary

  1. victualling house
  2. victualling houses
  3. victualling yard
  4. victualling yards
  5. victualling-office
  6. victualling-offices
  7. victualls
  8. victualry
  9. victuals
  10. Victuuri
  11. Victwardian

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