Abdomen vs Billy - What's the difference?
abdomen | billy |
(obsolete) The fat surrounding the belly.
(anatomy) The belly, or that part of the body between the thorax and the pelvis, not including the back; or in some lower vertebrates, the portion between the cardiac and caudal regions.
(anatomy) The cavity of the belly, which is lined by the peritoneum, and contains the viscera; often restricted in humans to the part between the diaphragm and the commencement of the pelvis, the remainder being called the pelvic cavity.
(zoology, entomology) The posterior section of the body, behind the thorax, in insects, crustaceans, and other Arthropoda.
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A billy club.
A billy goat.
* 1970 August, Valerius Geist, Mountain Goat Mysteries'', '' ,
* 1992 , Dwight R. Schuh, Mountain Goat (Oreamnos americanus)'', in ''Bowhunter's Encyclopedia ,
* 2002 , Douglas H. Chadwick, A Beast the Color of Winter: The Mountain Goat Observed ,
# A male goat; a ram.
(Geordie) A good friend.
(Australia, New Zealand) A tin used by bushmen to boil tea, a billypot.
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(UK, Australia) A billycan.
* 1889 , Ernest Giles, Australia Twice Traversed , 2004,
* 2011 , Rod Moss, The Hard Light of Day: An Artist's Story of Friendships in Arrernte Country ,
(slang) A condom (From the E-Rotic song "Willy, Use a Billy...Boy")
A slubbing or roving machine.
* 1840 , The Citizen ,
* 1967 , Jennifer Tann, Gloucestershire Woollen Mills: Industrial Archaeology ,
As a noun abdomen
is .As a proper noun billy is
a diminutive of the male given name william.abdomen
English
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(en-noun)- He was all bent over complaining of pains in the abdomen.
Synonyms
* belly * stomach * tummyReferences
billy
English
Noun
(billies)page 62,
- Then, during three days, I was amazed to see nannies with kids attack and chase off large billies .
page 276,
- In fact, distinguishing between billies and nannies isn't necessarily a sure thing.
page 159,
- It isn't just billies that enter the bleak season with rut-depleted fat reserves, but rams, bull elk, buck deer, and others.
- Let's get the billy and cook some beans.
page 239,
- We had been absent from civilisation, so long, that our tin billies', the only boiling utensils we had, got completely worn or burnt out at the bottoms, and as the boilings for glue and oil must still go on, what were we to do with ' billies with no bottoms?
unnumbered page,
- Over the fence, in a shallow gully 100 metres away, this guy and his wife were living on the dirt in the open weather with just a blanket, billies , a dog and a transistor radio. They didn't even have water.
page 347,
- at the time there existed in Dublin and its immediate neighbourhood, “forty-five manufacturers, having twenty-two billies , giving employment to 2885 work people, on whom depended for support 7386 individuals, manufacturing 29,312 pieces of cloth, of various qualities, valued at £336,380.”
page 126,
- On the second floor there were 2 billies , 1 carding and 1 scribbling machine.
Derived terms
* billycan, billy-can * billy cart * Silly Billy, silly billyReferences
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The Patrol goes to Camp(pp. 9, 11).