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yellow-belly noun- a coward US, 1930
- “You chicken punk!” Lucky had said. “You don’t belong in the Harps. We don’t want a yellowbelly.” — Hal Ellson, Tomboy, p. 9, 1950
- My buddies around town who were betting on Hite would have called me a yellowbelly if I’d dodged the match. — Sam Snead, The Education of a Golfer, p. 92, 1962
- a person of mixed Asian and white parentage UK, 1867
A derogatory and racist reference to skin-tone. An earlier use, from 1842, was by Americans of Mexicans.
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