subs. phr. (old).—A glutton. As adj. = gluttonish.

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  c. 1540.  Compl. Rodk. Mors, xxii. F. iv. b. A sort of BELLYGODS and ydle stoute and strong lorrels.

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  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.

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  1620.  VENNER, Via Recta, vi. 102. Mixt sauces … which of ingurgitating BELLYGODS are greatly esteemed.

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  1634–46.  ROW, Hist. Kirk (1842), 344. BELLIE-GOD bishops hes little will of that work.

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  1683.  TRIYON, Way to Health, 395. Many of our English BELLY-GODS suppose Flesh to be most mighty in its operation.

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  1818.  SCOTT, Rob Roy, xxviii. To see thae English BELLY-GODS.

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