gorrel-belliedとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

gorrel-bellied (comparative more gorrel-bellied, superlative most gorrel-bellied)

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of gorbellied
   • 1765, Thomas Percy, compiler, “Old Tom of Bedlam: Mad Song the First”, in Reliques of Ancient English Poetry: Consisting of Old Heroic Ballads, Songs, and Other Pieces of Our Earlier Poets, (Chiefly of the Lyric Kind.) Together with Some Few of Later Date, volume II, London: Printed for J[ames] Dodsley in Pall-Mall, OCLC 519493226, lines 37–40, page 345:

     Mercurye the nimble poſt of heaven, / Stood ſtill to ſee the quarrell; / Gorrel-bellyed Bacchus, gyant-like, / Beſtryd a ſtrong-beere barrell.