Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A neckerchief with darkish-blue ground and large white spots with a dark-blue spot in the center of each.
  • noun One who belches.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who, or that which, belches.

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  • noun Someone who belches.

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Examples

  • His toggery was that of a member of the prize-ring; what we now call a "belcher" bound his throat; a spotted _fogle_ bandaged his

    Rookwood William Harrison Ainsworth 1843

  • Glenn Beck, the bombastic belcher of dubious political punditry, publicly exposed himself on his radio program ...

    Mike Green: Glenn Beck attacks 11-year-old Black Girl 2010

  • BLATTER UPThe Fiver imagines that Fifa belcher-in-chief Sepp Blatter is going to be very annoyed indeed when he finds out that an interview with him has today appeared on some new-fangled contraption called a "website" - owned and operated by none other than Fifa, the very organisation presided over by the planet's most stubborn and penguin-shaped technophobe.

    Obsequious To The Point Of Becoming A Human Suppository 2010

  • Glenn Beck, the bombastic belcher of dubious political punditry, publicly exposed himself on his radio program when he attacked Malia Obama, the 11-year-old daughter of President Barack Obama.

    Mike Green: Glenn Beck attacks 11-year-old Black Girl 2010

  • Glenn Beck, the bombastic belcher of dubious political punditry, publicly exposed himself on his radio program when he attacked Malia Obama, the 11-year-old daughter of President Barack Obama.

    Mike Green: Glenn Beck attacks 11-year-old Black Girl 2010

  • No, I made that last part up, but my brother really is a talented belcher, and I both respect and envyhim for that.

    Spend quality time with your parents « Dating Jesus 2009

  • He had a brown hat on his head, and a dirty belcher handkerchief round his neck: with the long frayed ends of which he smeared the beer from his face as he spoke.

    Oliver Twist 2007

  • It was quite a little feast; two ounces of seven – and – sixpenny green, and a quarter of a pound of the best fresh; and Mr. Wilkins had brought a pint of shrimps, neatly folded up in a clean belcher, to give a zest to the meal, and propitiate Mrs. Ivins.

    Sketches by Boz 2007

  • Shall I be a convict in a felt hat and a grey suit, trotting about a dockyard with my number neatly embroidered on my uniform, and the order of the garter on my leg, restrained from chafing my ankle by a twisted belcher handkerchief?

    The Old Curiosity Shop 2007

  • Now every man has the same coachmanlike look in his belcher and caped coat, and there is no outward difference between my Lord and his groom.

    The Memoires of Barry Lyndon 2006

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  • "2. A neckerchief with darkish-blue ground and large white spots with a dark-blue spot in the center of each."

    --Century Dictionary

    January 4, 2011