belly-god

A supposed god of appetite, food, and eating.

The deck-hands were Cantonese, and, as is well known to worshippers of the belly-god, they eat their rice seasoned.

For the moment speech failed him, so active were his gastric Juices. The belly god in him was passionately aroused.

A lover of food; a glutton; an epicure. See Thesaurus:glutton