yellowbelly
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈjɛləʊbɛli/
yellowbelly (plural yellowbellies)
- A coward.
- (UK, slang) Someone from Lincolnshire.
- (Australia) The golden perch, Macquaria ambigua.
- 1994, Rita Huggins & Jackie Huggins, Auntie Rita, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 151:
- The creeks gave us lots of food, too—yellow belly and jew, perch and eel.
- 1994, Rita Huggins & Jackie Huggins, Auntie Rita, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 151:
- Italian: coniglio, mammoletta, pollo, merlo, femminuccia, smidollato, pappa molle, pappamolle, rammollito, fifone, codardo, cortigiano, mollusco, vigliacco, pusillanime, eunuco, debole, pisciasotto, cacasotto, pauroso, vile
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