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What (who) is Belly - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Belly (disambiguation)
Belly
·noun The Womb.
II. Belly ·vt To cause to swell out; to Fill.
III. Belly ·noun The under part of the body of animals, corresponding to the human belly.
IV. Belly ·noun The hollow part of a curved or bent timber, the convex part of which is the back.
VI. Belly ·noun That part of the human body which extends downward from the breast to the thighs, and contains the bowels, or intestines; the abdomen.
VII. Belly ·noun The part of anything which resembles the human belly in protuberance or in cavity; the innermost part; as, the belly of a flask, muscle, sail, ship.
belly
I. n.
1.
Abdomen, paunch.
2.
Convexity, swell, swelling, bulge, protuberance.
3.
Concavity, hollow, deep, depth or depths, recesses, womb, bosom, bowels, cave, cavernous depths, penetralia.
II. v. a.
Inflate, swell out, fill, round, round out.
III. v. n.
Swell, swell out, protrude, be protuberant.
belly
(bellies)
1.
The belly of a person or animal is their stomach or abdomen. In British English, this is an informal or literary use.
She laid her hands on her swollen belly...
You'll eat so much your belly'll be like a barrel.
= stomach, tummy
N-COUNT: with poss
2.
If a company goes belly up, it does not have enough money to pay its debts. (INFORMAL)
I really can't afford to see this company go belly up.
= go bust
PHRASE: V inflects
Examples of use of Belly
1. Belly–back, belly–back, and who will shampoo his head?
2. Before fleeing, she plunged the blade into her belly.
3. Astronaut Stephen Robinson rode the space station‘s robot arm to Discovery‘s belly to remove two protruding cloth strips from the smooth surface of the ship‘s belly.
4. The group‘s belly dancer was Christine Clark, who went by the name «Melike.» Clark said she learned belly dancing from her Turkish instructor, Tayyar Akdeniz.
5. Belly dancing joins hip–hop and Latino in China‘s modern culture In China, the dance is know as dupiwu, literally belly skin dancing.