pinch-belly

English

Noun

pinch-belly (plural pinch-bellies)

1. Alternative form of pinch-gut (“miser”)
   • 1662, Jacques Olivier, translated by Richard Banke, A Discourse of Women, Shewing Their Imperfections Alphabetically, →OCLC, page 2:

     Such a Pinch-belly, that he grudgeth himself sustenance, like that Wretch reported by St. Ambrose, who eating of an Egge for his meat, uttered these words with a sigh, that he had lost a Hen; repining therein at his great expence.