subs. phr. (old).A glutton. As adj. = gluttonish.
c. 1540. Compl. Rodk. Mors, xxii. F. iv. b. A sort of BELLYGODS and ydle stoute and strong lorrels.
c. 1590. The Legend of the Bischop of Sanctandrois Lyfe, Preface [Scotish Poems of the Sixteenth Century (1801) II, 307.]
Fals Pharisianis, | |
BELLIE GOD bischopis. |
1620. VENNER, Via Recta, vi. 102. Mixt sauces which of ingurgitating BELLYGODS are greatly esteemed.
163446. ROW, Hist. Kirk (1842), 344. BELLIE-GOD bishops hes little will of that work.
1683. TRIYON, Way to Health, 395. Many of our English BELLY-GODS suppose Flesh to be most mighty in its operation.
1818. SCOTT, Rob Roy, xxviii. To see thae English BELLY-GODS.