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What (who) is bellyache - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Bellyache (song); Bellyache (disambiguation)
bellyache
informal
¦ noun a stomach pain.
¦ verb complain noisily or persistently.
Derivatives
bellyacher noun
bellyache
also belly-ache
(bellyaches, bellyaching, bellyached)
1.
Bellyache is a pain inside your abdomen, especially in your stomach. (INFORMAL)
= stomach-ache
N-VAR
2.
If you say that someone is bellyaching, you mean they complain loudly and frequently about something and you think this is unreasonable or unjustified. (INFORMAL)
...belly-aching about recession.
= complain
VERB: usu cont, V about n, also V
bellyache
v. (slang) (D; intr.) ('to complain') to bellyache about
Wikipedia
Bellyache
Bellyache may refer to:
- Abdominal pain
- Bellyache bush, a flowering plant native to Mexico, South America and the Caribbean islands
- Bellyache, an informal term for a complaint
- "Bellyache" (Echobelly song), 1993
- "Bellyache" (Billie Eilish song), 2017
Examples of use of bellyache
1. "This is not just a bellyache." Salmonella is a bacteria that causes diarrhea, fever and abdominal cramps and in some cases requires hospitalization.
2. Even with these many impediments, lawmakers still bellyache that the torrent of e–mails they get every day is more than their staffs can handle.
3. But on his arrival home, friends noticed that he appeared tense and he complained of "bellyache". He cut his hair, shaved off his moustache and made changes to the appearance of his truck.
4. We can bellyache about Nato troops not doing their bit in Helmand province: though just look at where European troops are deployed on UN peacekeeping missions. (Try Austrian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Polish, Spanish and Swedish forces keeping Eritrea and Ethiopia apart.) We can terrify ourselves with the prospect of thousands of educated Romanians and Bulgarians coming to man the A&E departments that would otherwise close.