Definitions for bellies

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bellies bel·ly

Spelling: [bel-ee]

IPA: /ˈbɛl i/

Bellies is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 103 anagrams from letters in bellies (beeills).

Definitions for bellies

noun

1. the front or under part of a vertebrate body from the breastbone to the pelvis, containing the abdominal viscera; the abdomen.
2. the stomach with its adjuncts.
3. appetite or capacity for food; gluttony.
4. the womb.
5. the inside or interior of anything:
6. a protuberant or bulging surface of anything:
7. Anatomy. the fleshy part of a muscle.
8. the front, inner, or under surface or part, as distinguished from the back.
9. the front surface of a violin or similar instrument.
10. a bulge on a vertical surface of fresh concrete.
11. the underpart of the fuselage of an airplane.

Idioms

1. go / turn belly up, Informal. to come to an end; die; fail:

Verb phrases

1. belly up, Informal. to approach closely, especially until one is in physical contact: to curry favor from:

verb (used with object)

1. to fill out; swell:

verb (used without object)

1. to swell out:
2. to crawl on one's belly:

Origin of bellies

before 950; Middle English bely, Old English belig, belg bag, skin; cognate with German Balg, Gothic balgs, Old Norse belgr sack; akin to Welsh bol(a), boly, Irish bolg sack, belly, bellows,

Examples for bellies

They wait in the stables, and sit along the racks and under the horses' bellies.

Fine ladies, fresh ladies, and bellies as big as bishops—Mack-er-el!'

Why, she asked, were men given brains if they made gods of their bellies?

They drink too much, their bellies distend, and most possess a predilection for siliconed blondes and themed belt buckles.

However, de-miners crawling on their bellies to identify, excavate, and destroy mines remain the default modus operandi.

It isn't gowns that lovers love, but what bellies out the gowns.

All other means have been tried, short of crawling on our bellies to these Dutch hinds!

But it was not just their bellies that needed feeding—their minds and hearts did, too.

What would all you parsons do to clothe your backs and feed your bellies?

Only gratify their bellies in the matter of appetite, and you will succeed in winning much from them.