tiger belly
n.— «I have a feeling that if there was a reliable way, women would have been using it a lot sooner than weight trainees (pregnancy and stretch marks and the tiger belly thing).» —“Re: Stretch Marks” by spodosaurus Usenet: misc.fitness.weights Mar. 24, 2003. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
To feel poosly, or poosley, meaning to “feel poorly,” shows up in the Mid-Hudson Valley of New York and is linked to Dutch settlement in the area. The word appears in a list of Dutchisms in the fourth edition of H. L. Mencken’s The American Language...
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