sowbelly
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of sowbelly
Example Sentences
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Once or twice a week they have sowbelly.
From Time Magazine Archive
Farmers feed their hogs carefully to keep them from producing too much lard, fat back and sowbelly.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had enjoyed his dinner of sowbelly and cornbread with syrup poured over it.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
The diets of cornbread and sowbelly and syrup, the crowding of four and five persons to a single room.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
Sometimes when the boy’s father helped butcher hogs down at the big house, he would bring home spareribs and sowbelly—lots of sowbelly, but not much spareribs.
From "Sounder" by William H. Armstrong
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