bluebelly

See also: blue belly

English

From blue +‎ belly. The ventral abdomen of the adult lizard is characteristically blue. The soldiers wore blue gaberdines.

bluebelly (plural bluebellies)

Sceloporus occidentalis, a North American lizard.
Synonym: western fence lizard
(historical) A Yankee; a Union soldier during the American civil war.
Coordinate term: greyback
- 1989, Paul R. Stevenson, Cross a Wide River, →ISBN:
  The 'bluebelly' instantly disclosed that the troops were Confederate.
- 2007, Harry Turtledove, Fort Pillow: A Novel of the Civil War, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN:
  He almost dropped his end of the plank that had a wounded Federal on it. The bluebelly groaned. The Confederate trooper at the other end of the plank said, “Watch what you're doing, dammit! What the hell's wrong with you, anyways?"