belly cheer

Good cheer for the stomach; food grateful to the appetite or nutritious in its character. "Sensele of divine doctrine, and capable only of loaves and belly-cheer."-Milton: Animadv. Rem. Defence. IMG:content-1218.png:[blocks in formation] 1. One whose chief object of thought seems to be his "belly," or stomach, and who therefore may be supposed to worship it. "What infinite waste they made this way, the only story of Apicius, a famous belly -god, may suffice to show."-Hake will. 2. In India: The idol Gun puttee, which has a very protuberant stomach. The "god" so named is held to be the patron of wisdom.