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Belly

//ˈbɛli//

Definitions

1
The abdomen (especially a fat one).
You've grown a belly over Christmas! Time to join the gym again.
2
stomach (an organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion
My belly was full of wine.
3
uterus (a reproductive organ of therian mammals in which the young are conceived and develop until birth
Before I formed thee in the bellie, I knew thee; […]
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1
To position one’s belly; to move on one’s belly.
Bellying forward to the edge of the clearing, he found Hans, lying on his face, feathered with arrows like a porcupine.
2
To swell and become protuberant; to bulge or billow.

Word Origin

Inherited from Middle English bely, beli, bali, below, belew, balyw, from Old English bielġ (“bag, pouch, bulge”), from Proto-West Germanic *balgi, *balgu, from Proto-Germanic *balgiz, *balguz (“skin,...

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Belly

//ˈbɛli//

Definitions

nounbellies

1
The abdomen (especially a fat one).
You've grown a belly over Christmas! Time to join the gym again.
2
stomach (an organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion
My belly was full of wine.
3
uterus (a reproductive organ of therian mammals in which the young are conceived and develop until birth
Before I formed thee in the bellie, I knew thee; […]
Similar
matrix metra uterus

verbbellies · bellying · bellied

1
To position one’s belly; to move on one’s belly.
Bellying forward to the edge of the clearing, he found Hans, lying on his face, feathered with arrows like a porcupine.
2
To swell and become protuberant; to bulge or billow.

Word Origin

Inherited from Middle English bely, beli, bali, below, belew, balyw, from Old English bielġ (“bag, pouch, bulge”), from Proto-West Germanic *balgi, *balgu, from Proto-Germanic *balgiz, *balguz (“skin,...

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The Pow'r appeaſ'd, with Winds ſuffic'd the Sail, / The bellying Canvaſs ſtrutted with the Gale; […]

3

To cause to swell out; to fill.

Your breath of full consent bellied his sails; […]