subs. phr. (old).—A lazy, greedy fellow; a stothful glutton.
1540. MORYSINE, [transl., Vives Introd. Wisd., viii.]. Such as be skoffers, swell feastes … BELY GUTS.
1733. N. BAILEY, trans. The Colloquies of Erasmus, 346. Since then thou would’st not have a BELLY-GUT for thy servant, but rather one brisk and agile; why then dost thou provide for thy mind a minister fat and unwieldy?
