A fat stomach caused by excessive consumption of beer.
he sat back, his brewer's goitre slung over his belt
Example sentencesExamples
He wore a plumcoloured waistcoat suffering from a bad attack of brewer's goitre.
He smoothed his brewer's goitre with slow, careful hands.
The landlord beamed bucolic above his outsize brewer's goitre.
I wondered how a person could answer to the description 'spindle shanked and herring gutted' yet still run to a brewer's goitre.
There's no doubt at all that beer produces a 'brewer's goitre' if you drink enough of it.
The nickname referred to his impressive chest which he carried low, and which the unkind called a brewer's goitre.
As inexorably as the 'brewer's goitre', the problem re-emerged.
He had a brewer's goitre, the beer belly hauled in by an ineffectual belt.
He carried a good deal of his weight in front, what the diggers called "Brewer's goitre."
No mention of alcohol is complete without a reference to its side effects as an additional food-intake which causes the development of excess body fat and the well known "brewer's goitre".