Meaning of tenterbelly | Babel Free

Definitions

A glutton.

obsolete

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“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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