belly-god

English

Noun

belly-god (plural belly-gods)

  1. A supposed god of appetite, food, and eating.
    • 1936 January 1, The World's New, Sydney, page 19, column 2:
      The deck-hands were Cantonese, and, as is well known to worshippers of the belly-god, they eat their rice seasoned.
    • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 181:
      For the moment speech failed him, so active were his gastric Juices. The belly god in him was passionately aroused.
  2. (obsolete) A lover of food; a glutton; an epicure. See Thesaurus:glutton

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