词汇 | pussel-gutted |
词源 | pussel-gutted. Big, protuberant bellies; also pus-gutted, pussy-gutted. Perhaps derives from purse, or from the dialect term puscle, suggesting a swollen gut. “You durned fool, I sent word to you two days ago to get away from there before that pussel-gutted Hampton come prowling around with that surry full of deputies.” (William Faulkner, The Hamlet, 1931). |
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