Definitions for belly

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belly bel·ly

Spelling: [bel-ee]

IPA: /ˈbɛl i/

Belly is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 37 anagrams from letters in belly (belly).

Definitions for belly

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 belly

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 belly

The Vaisyas, who constitute the third caste, issued from Brahma's belly.

Your chattel is for growing corn, not for corn in a hog's belly.

They called down to Madame Gaudron to ask her if she could squeeze her belly through.

When you crush an insect, you have all these long worms uncoiling from the belly.

He holds them on his belly and looks at them with a magnifying glass, studying possible escape routes.

A major surgery requiring plastic mesh sewn into her belly saved her life.

But a ridiculous and childish fable of the belly and the rest of the members.

All you could see was the area from her belly button to her knees.

She attends hip-hop and belly dance classes (known as Arabic dance in Iran) just to shine more at parties.

Another spends all he can rap and run on his belly, to be the more hungry after it.