please list usage with examples
many thanks
2007-12-13 06:05:57 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Teaching
Coward.
2007-12-13 06:08:56 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, coward. Like in the old west guys that lost fights or backed down from fights were yeller, or yellow bellies. Yellow alone means coward or scared.
2007-12-13 06:14:33 · answer #2 · answered by Sheila 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The phrase, of course, is "yellow bellied", meaning cowardly. It was commonly-used in the Old West, apparently. An example would be: "That yellow-bellied fool was talking big, but he just took off and ran when he saw the Sheriff coming".
2007-12-13 06:11:00 · answer #3 · answered by neniaf 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yellow belly means a coward, don`t know why the belly is referred to.
As in " if you won`t scrump apples your a yellow belly" meaning you are too scared of getting caught.
2007-12-13 06:11:01 · answer #4 · answered by firebobby 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Courage meant you had guts
yellow is associated with cowardice so yellow bellied meant gutless coward.
2007-12-13 06:13:13 · answer #5 · answered by little devil 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the UK a yellowbelly refers to someone that comes from
Lincolnshire, just for interest someone from Leicestershire is
called a Woolyback
2007-12-13 06:18:38 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
means a person is a coward
2007-12-13 06:12:59 · answer #7 · answered by Sandra C 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
cowardy cowardy custard, green snot pie, mixed all together with a dead dogs eye...
yeller belly is slang for coward... and custard is yellow
2007-12-13 06:09:45 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋