<Li> Women traders on street markets in past times are reputed to have worn a leather apron with two pockets, one for copper and silver and one for gold . At the end of a good day they would say they had' a yellow belly' meaning they had taken a large number of gold sovereigns . </Li> <Li> A folk etymology says that the term originated from Elloe, the name of the rural deanery that serves the fen area of the Lincoln Diocese . This in turn took its name from the Saxon Wapentake which was referred to as þe Elloe Bellie - Elloe meaning out of the morass while bel was the Celtic word for hole or hollow . </Li>

Where did the term yellow belly come from