Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Good cheer; meat and drink; food. Elyot, Diet., 1559.
- To indulge in belly-cheer; feast; revel.
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Examples
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He's now at supper with the scholars, where there's such belly-cheer as Wagner in his life ne'er [231] saw the like: and, see where they come! belike the feast is ended.
The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus From the Quarto of 1616 Christopher Marlowe 1578
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School led the Boy-Bishop through the streets for "apples and belly-cheer; and whoso would not receive him he made heretics, and such also as would not give his faggot for Queen Mary's child."
hernesheir commented on the word belly-cheer
Cf. gastrimargism
August 22, 2014