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whistle-belly vengeance

whistle-belly vengeance noun: poor-quality beer.

Noun

whistle-belly vengeance (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Poor-quality beer.
    • While East was making his toilet, Tom turned to the table, and made an assault on the bread and bacon, and then poured himself out a glass of beer and began to drink it, but was pulled up half way, and put it down with a face all drawn up into puckers by its sharpness.¶ "I thought you wouldn't...1861, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxford, London: Macmillan and Co., published 1883, page 449

Synonyms of whistle-belly vengeance

Origin of whistle-belly vengeance

From whistle + belly + vengeance.

Questions about whistle-belly vengeance

What does whistle-belly vengeance mean?
Whistle-belly vengeance means poor-quality beer.
What part of speech is whistle-belly vengeance?
Whistle-belly vengeance is a noun.

Words near whistle-belly vengeance in the dictionary

  1. whistle registers
  2. whistle stop
  3. whistle up
  4. whistle walk
  5. whistle walks
  6. whistle-belly vengeance
  7. whistle-blew
  8. whistle-blow
  9. whistle-blower
  10. whistle-blowers
  11. whistle-blowing

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