Belly vs Beely - What's the difference?
belly | beely |
As verbs the difference between belly and beely is that belly is to position one's belly while beely is . As a noun belly is the abdomen. As an adjective beely is of, relating to or pertaining to bees; apian. As an adverb beely is in a beely or beelike manner.
belly English
Noun
( bellies)
The abdomen.
- (Dunglison)
The stomach, especially a fat one.
The womb.
* Bible, Jer. i. 5
- Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee.
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.
The part of anything which resembles the human belly in protuberance or in cavity; the innermost part.
- the belly of a flask, muscle, sail, or ship
* Bible, Jonah ii. 2
- Out of the belly of hell cried I.
(architecture) The hollow part of a curved or bent timber, the convex part of which is the back.
Derived terms
* beer belly
* bellyache
* belly button/belly-button
* belly dance/belly-dance
* belly dancer/belly-dancer
* belly dancing
* belly flop, bellyflop
* bellyful
* belly laugh/belly-laugh
* bellyless
* bellylike
* belly of the beast
* Delhi belly
* fire in the belly
* sawbelly
* sharpbelly
Usage notes
* Formerly, all the splanchnic or visceral cavities were called bellies: the lower belly being the abdomen; the middle belly, the thorax; and the upper belly, the head.
See also
* have eyes bigger than one's belly
* abdomen
* bouk
* stomach
* tummy
Verb
To position one's belly.
To swell and become protuberant; to bulge.
* Dryden
- The bellying canvas strutted with the gale.
To cause to swell out; to fill.
* Shakespeare
- Your breath of full consent bellied his sails.
Derived terms
* belly up
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beely English
Etymology 1
From .
Adjective
( en-adj)
Of, relating to or pertaining to bees; apian.
* 1877 , Elizabeth Anna Hart, Silver wings and golden scales :
- As for bees, we cannot accuse them of silence, as the peculiar buzzing-sound they make in flying, [...] and which is so very agreeable to our ears when its gentle monotony enlivens the calm of the warm summer air, is, we may hope, a cheerful accompaniment to all beely labours, and as pleasant to those who make it as our voices are to us, [...]
* 1950 , Gleanings in bee culture:
- With their countenance' spaces Planned for beely enterprise [...]
Adverb
( en-adv)
In a beely or beelike manner.
* 1965 , Murray Hoyt, The world of bees :
- His effort is to come as near 100 percent as is humanly (and beely ) possible.
Etymology 2
Variation of belie.
Verb
* 1813 , Matteo Bandello, Joseph Haslewood, Giovanni Boccaccio, Palace of pleasure :
- And were it not that I haue a desire in nothing to beely the author, and lesse will to leaue that which he had wrytten vpon the miserable end [...]
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