[
UK
/bˈɛli/
]
[ US /ˈbɛɫi/ ]
[ US /ˈbɛɫi/ ]
NOUN
-
the hollow inside of something
in the belly of the ship -
a part that bulges deeply
the belly of a sail - the underpart of the body of certain vertebrates such as snakes or fish
- the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis
- a protruding abdomen
VERB
- swell out or bulge out
How To Use belly In A Sentence
- From where I am, c'est-à-dire, * sea level, in the belly of the crowd, I see a lot of bare midriffs, cleavage and pouty lips. Escapade
- Apparently, the discovery that Landis is 10,000 years old further proves the fact that he is using performance enhancing steroids. creeky belly Doping ID - The Panda's Thumb
- To wake up with her belly-up and demanding affection is to have your heart explode with the kind of joy that compels some people into a life of large-scale oil painting.
- She felt it pause in her belly and then shoot out from her chest and from the top of her head.
- Misers put their back and their belly into their pockets.
- After many days I noticed my belly was becoming distended.
- If you wish to ascertain if a woman be with child, give her hydromel to drink when she is going to sleep, and has not taken supper, and if she be seized with tormina in the belly, she is with child, but otherwise she is not pregnant. Aphorisms
- The term belly-dance is a creation of Orientalism, and is first attested in English in 1899, translating French danse du ventre. WN.com - Financial News
- NASA officials say they don't think a piece of tile that hit Discovery's belly during liftoff is a serious matter.
- I too have suffered paralysis in a plethora of possibility: belly or Nova, herring or tongue, chub or sable, kreplach or kishke, kugel or blueberry blintz ... Par Delicatesse