round-barrel'd

Updated: May 9, 2025

Yes, so runs the old-fashioned nursery rhyme, And a porker that's plump, and round-barrel'd and big, Is good business, or used to be once on a time. But now, they're the horriblest nuisance on earth Are Pigs, and a great deal more plague than they're worth. I begin to believe 'twould be better by far If Pigs, like the Dodo, extinct could become.

Various - Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, January 24, 1891