sourbelly

Noun

 * 1) A cantankerous person.
 * You are an old sourbelly this evening. What's the matter? &mdash; John Dos Passos, Michael Clark, Streets of Night (1990)
 * Their supplies were down to a dog tent, five plugs of chewing tobacco, four beans, and a slab of sourbelly. &mdash; Walter Vaughan, The Life and Work of Sir William Van Horne (1920)
 * Their supplies were down to a dog tent, five plugs of chewing tobacco, four beans, and a slab of sourbelly. &mdash; Walter Vaughan, The Life and Work of Sir William Van Horne (1920)