or forty-guts, subs. (common).—A fat, dumpy man, or woman. In contempt.
ENGLISH SYNONYMS.—‘All arse, and no body’; arse-and-corporation; all-belly (COTGRAVE); all guts (idem); bacon-belly; barrel-belly; belly-god; bladder-figured; bosse-belly; Bosse of Billingsgate (FLORIO = a fat woman); chuff (SHAKESPEARE); Christmas beef; double-guts; double-tripe; fat-cock; fat-guts (SHAKESPEARE and COTGRAVE); fatico; fattymus or fattyma; fubsy; fat Jack of the bonehouse; fat-lips; flanderkin; fustiluggs (BURTON); fussock; gorbelly; grampus; gotch-guts; grand-guts (FLORIO); gulche (FLORIO); gullyguts; gundigutts; guts; guts-and-stomach; guts-and-garbage; guts-to-sell; hoddy-doddy; humpty-dumpty; hogshead; hopper-arse; Jack Weight; loppers; lummox; paunch; pod; porpoise; pot-guts; princod; pudding-belly; puff-guts; ribs; ‘short-and-thick-like-a-Welshman’s-cock’; slush-bucket; sow (a fat woman); spud; squab; studgy-guts; tallow-guts; tallow-merchant; thick-in-the-middle; tripes; tripes and trullibubs; tubs; waist; water-butt; walking ninepin; whopper.
FRENCH SYNONYMS. Un gros bajaf (popular); un bout de cul (popular); un bas de plafond, or de cul (popular); un brasset (= a tall, stout man); un berdouillard.
SPANISH SYNONYM. Angelon de retablo (generally applied to a pot-bellied child).
