belly-wark

See also: bellywark

English

Noun

belly-wark (plural belly-warks)

Alternative form of bellywark
- 1670, John Ray, “Proverbial Phrases”, in A Compleat Collection of English Proverbs‎, 3rd edition, J. Hughs, Lincoln's-Inn-Field, published 1737, page 198:
  Sick of the idle crick, and the belly-wark in the heel.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:bellywark.

References

Wright, Joseph (1898) The English Dialect Dictionary‎, volume 1, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 238

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