Tenterbelly
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Tenterbelly is a noun meaning (obsolete) A glutton.
Meaning
(obsolete) A glutton.
Example Sentences
Not with ſweet wine, mutton and potage, as many of thoſe Tenterbellies doe, howſoever they put on Lenten faces, and whatſoever they pretend, but from all manner of meat.
Bell, the famous Idoll of the Babylonians, was a meere imposture, a Iuggling toye, and a cheating bable, in comparison of this Nicholaitan, Kentish Tenterbelly, the high and mighty Duke All-paunch, was but a fiction to him.
That amongst the drink-alians in tenterbelly, he that can drinke a certaine vessell of about a gallon thrice off, and goe away without indenting, for this his good service is presently carried through the City in triumph, to that goodly Temple dedicated to god All-paunch, and there knighted.
Word Forms
- tenterbellies
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include greedyguts, glutton, swagbelly, gluttony, bellyful, overeater.
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