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yellow belly

1

noun

  1. dialect.
    a native of Lincolnshire, esp of the fens
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


yellow-belly

2

noun

  1. a slang word for coward
  2. another name for callop
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈyellow-ˌbellied, adjective
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Example Sentences

It’s Thursday, Sept. 25, 1975, and in a backyard citrus tree on South Glencoe Avenue in Venice, a Medfly is showing its foul face, its blue eyes and yellow belly.

A three-foot, red wooden frog plays steel drums in the forefront backed up by a lime-green frog on guitar, a peach-colored one plays a drum and a forest green amphibian, with a yellow belly, cuts up the keyboard.

The Yellow Belly beer is made by Swedish brewery Omnipollo and Buxton Brewery in the U.K., the Hartford Courant reports.

World of Beer responded to the woman's Facebook post, stating that Yellow Belly has been pulled “from further sale.”

Mallory Sarver unhooks one, loosens the drawstring, reaches in and pulls out a tiny bird with a gray head, a brilliant yellow belly with black streaks and white stripes on its black wings.

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