Word of the Day: GOTCH-GUTTED

ETYMOLOGY
from English dialect gotch (a big-bellied earthenware pot or jug) + bellied

EXAMPLE
“… Then did ye see e’r an old Bald-pated, Beetle-Brow’d, Gotch-Gutted, Squint-Ey’d, Sowr-Fac’d Ra­scal, the very Canker-Worm of Heaven and Earth, and Store-House o’ Mischief, Roguery, and Villany, leading o’ two good likely Girls? …”

From: Plautus’s Comedies, 
By Titus Maccius Plautus
Translated by Laurence Echard, 1694

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