belly
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belly/ˈbeli/
▶noun (pl. bellies)
- 1 the front part of the human trunk below the ribs, containing the stomach and bowels.
■ the stomach.
■ (also belly pork) a cut of pork from the underside between the legs.
- 2 the rounded underside of a ship or aircraft.
- 3 the top surface of an instrument of the violin family, over which the strings are placed.
– phrases
go belly up informal go bankrupt.
go belly up informal go bankrupt.
– derivatives
-bellied adjective.
-bellied adjective.
– origin OE belig ‘bag’, of Gmc origin.
'belly' also found in these Oxford entries:
abdomen
- alewife
- barrel
- beer belly
- bellows
- belly button
- belly dance
- belly laugh
- buckboard
- bucket
- bulk
- caiman
- coeliac
- deep-bodied
- digastric muscle
- epigastrium
- girth
- grenadier
- gut
- hara-kiri
- hypogastrium
- kyte
- marsupial
- midriff
- navel
- opah
- pancetta
- pot
- pot belly
- purfle
- razorfish
- roughy
- sei whale
- soundhole
- stomach
- streaky
- surcingle
- torgoch
- toro
- ventral
- ventricle
- ventriloquist
- yellow-belly
