belly-wahk

English

Noun

belly-wahk (plural belly-wahks)

1. (Yorkshire) Alternative spelling of bellywark
   • 1899, John Nicholson, The Folk Speech of East Yorkshire‎^[1], page 93:

     Bayn hez belly-wahk wi cranshin si mich rewbub.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:bellywark.

References

• Wright, Joseph (1898) The English Dialect Dictionary‎^[2], volume 1, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 238