belly-god

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belly-god

noun belly-gods

A supposed god of appetite, food, and eating. The deck-hands were Cantonese, and, as is well known to worshippers of the belly-god, they eat their rice seasoned.
obsolete A lover of food; a glutton; an epicure. See Thesaurus:glutton

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@misc{belly_god_2026,
  title = {belly-god},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/belly-god},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}