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Sep 20, 2019
This week’s themeShakespearean insults
This week’s words
dotard
sodden-witted
scullion
knotty-pated
gorbellied
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PRONUNCIATION:
(GOR-bel-eed) 
MEANING:
adjective: Having a large belly: fat.
ETYMOLOGY:
From gorbelly (large belly), from gor (gore) + belly, from Old English belig (bag). Earliest documented use: 1529.
USAGE:
“Saint Thomas, Stephen, smiling, said, whose gorbellied works I enjoy reading in the original.”
James Joyce; Ulysses; Sylvia Beach; 1922.
“Falstaff: Hang ye, gorbellied knaves, are ye undone? No, ye fat chuffs.”
William Shakespeare; Henry IV, Part 1; 1623.
James Joyce; Ulysses; Sylvia Beach; 1922.
“Falstaff: Hang ye, gorbellied knaves, are ye undone? No, ye fat chuffs.”
William Shakespeare; Henry IV, Part 1; 1623.
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