belly

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The belly of a pregnant woman.

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Old English bælġ

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belly (plural bellies)

  1. The abdomen.
  2. The stomach, especially a fat one.
  3. The lower fuselage of an airplane.
    • 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus 2010, p. 454:
      There was no heat, and we shivered in the belly of the plane.

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belly (third-person singular simple present bellies, present participle bellying, simple past and past participle bellied)

  1. To position one's belly.
  2. To swell and become protuberant; to bulge.
    The bellying canvas strutted with the gale. — Dryden.

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