gundiguts n.
1. a fat person; thus gundy-gut adj., fat.
Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Gundigutts, a fat pursy Fellow. | ||
Compleat and Humorous Account of Remarkable Clubs (1756) 282: Those Gundy-Gut Matrons who deal in Fee Lane Tripes. | ||
Hist. of John Bull 60: What’s that to you, Gundy-guts (quoth Peg). | ||
New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698]. | ||
, , , | Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. 1725]. | |
, , | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
Lex. Balatronicum. | ||
Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. |
2. in sing. as gundy gut, the stomach.
Burlesque Homer (3rd edn) 162: Like stout militia men who put / Their guns against their gundy gut. | ||
Burlesque Homer (4th edn) II 292: Slice after slice you’ll see him cut, / And stuff within his gundy gut. |