slow belly
English
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Noun
slow belly (plural slow bellies)
- (obsolete) A lazy person; a heavy indolent glutton.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Titus 1:12:
- One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:idler and Thesaurus:glutton