Having a large, protruding belly or being corpulent; fat-bellied.
From Middle English, combining 'gore' (filth, dirt) and 'belly,' originally used in early modern English as a descriptive term for someone with an excessively large stomach, often implying overindulgence.
This word appears in Shakespeare and Elizabethan texts as an insult, showing how people have always had creative ways to describe excess weight—and how body-shaming language has a surprisingly long historical pedigree.
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