belly
The abdomen (especially a fat one).
Noun 4 meanings
The abdomen (especially a fat one).
“You've grown a belly over Christmas! Time to join the gym again.”
stomach (an organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion)
“My belly was full of wine.”
uterus (a reproductive organ of therian mammals in which the young are conceived and develop until birth)
The lower fuselage of an airplane.
Verb 3 meanings
To position one’s belly; to move on one’s belly.
To swell and become protuberant; to bulge or billow.
“1917 rev. 1925 Ezra Pound, "Canto I" winds from sternward Bore us onward with bellying canvas ...”
To cause to swell out; to fill.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English bely, beli, bali, below, belew, balyw, from Old English bielġ (“bag, pouch, bulge”), from Proto-West Germanic *balgi, *balgu, from Proto-Germanic *balgiz, *balguz (“skin, hide, bellows, bag”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ- (“to swell, blow up”).
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BELLY at a glance
BELLY has 5 letters and scores 10 points in Scrabble (B 3 + E 1 + L 1 + L 1 + Y 4) and 12 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #5,929 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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