"tenterbelly" meaning in All languages combined

See tenterbelly on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: tenterbellies [plural]
Etymology: tenter ("to stretch") + belly. Head templates: {{en-noun}} tenterbelly (plural tenterbellies)
  1. (obsolete) A glutton. Tags: obsolete

Inflected forms

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  "etymology_text": "tenter (\"to stretch\") + belly.",
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        "plural"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1628, Robert Burton, The Anatomy Of Melancholy",
          "text": "Not with ſweet wine, mutton and potage, as many of thoſe Tenterbellies doe, howſoever they put on Lenten faces, and whatſoever they pretend, but from all manner of meat.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1630, John Taylor, The Great Eater of Kent",
          "text": "Bell, the famous Idoll of the Babylonians, was a meere imposture, a Iuggling toye, and a cheating bable, in comparison of this Nicholaitan, Kentish Tenterbelly, the high and mighty Duke All-paunch, was but a fiction to him.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1638, Richard Younge, The Drunkard's Character",
          "text": "That amongst the drink-alians in tenterbelly, he that can drinke a certaine vessell of about a gallon thrice off, and goe away without indenting, for this his good service is presently carried through the City in triumph, to that goodly Temple dedicated to god All-paunch, and there knighted.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A glutton."
      ],
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      "links": [
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) A glutton."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "tenterbelly"
}
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  "etymology_text": "tenter (\"to stretch\") + belly.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "tenterbellies",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "tenterbelly (plural tenterbellies)",
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    }
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          "ref": "1628, Robert Burton, The Anatomy Of Melancholy",
          "text": "Not with ſweet wine, mutton and potage, as many of thoſe Tenterbellies doe, howſoever they put on Lenten faces, and whatſoever they pretend, but from all manner of meat.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1630, John Taylor, The Great Eater of Kent",
          "text": "Bell, the famous Idoll of the Babylonians, was a meere imposture, a Iuggling toye, and a cheating bable, in comparison of this Nicholaitan, Kentish Tenterbelly, the high and mighty Duke All-paunch, was but a fiction to him.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1638, Richard Younge, The Drunkard's Character",
          "text": "That amongst the drink-alians in tenterbelly, he that can drinke a certaine vessell of about a gallon thrice off, and goe away without indenting, for this his good service is presently carried through the City in triumph, to that goodly Temple dedicated to god All-paunch, and there knighted.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A glutton."
      ],
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        "(obsolete) A glutton."
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      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "tenterbelly"
}

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