Belly vs Felly - What's the difference?
belly | felly |
The abdomen.
The stomach, especially a fat one.
The womb.
* Bible, Jer. i. 5
The lower fuselage of an airplane.
* 1994 , Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 454:
The part of anything which resembles the human belly in protuberance or in cavity; the innermost part.
* Bible, Jonah ii. 2
(architecture) The hollow part of a curved or bent timber, the convex part of which is the back.
To position one's belly.
To swell and become protuberant; to bulge.
* Dryden
To cause to swell out; to fill.
* Shakespeare
The outer rim of a wheel, supported by the spokes.
* 1602 , , act 2 scene 2 lines 426-430:
* 1922 , :
Fiercely, harshly.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.vi:
As nouns the difference between belly and felly
is that belly is the abdomen while felly is the outer rim of a wheel, supported by the spokes.As a verb belly
is to position one's belly.As an adverb felly is
fiercely, harshly.belly
English
Noun
(bellies)- (Dunglison)
- Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee.
- There was no heat, and we shivered in the belly of the plane.
- the belly of a flask, muscle, sail, or ship
- Out of the belly of hell cried I.
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 * sharpbellyUsage 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 * tummyVerb
- The bellying canvas strutted with the gale.
- Your breath of full consent bellied his sails.
Derived terms
* belly upfelly
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) fely, from (etyl) felge, dative of felg, from (etyl) 'to creep, crawl').Noun
(fellies)- all you Gods, / In generall Synod take away her power: / Breake all the Spokes and Fallies from her wheele [...].
- The felly harshed against the curbstone: stopped.
Alternative forms
* felloeEtymology 2
From .Adverb
(en adverb)- Ioues'' dreaded thunder light / Does scorch not halfe so sore, nor damned ghoste / In flaming ''Phlegeton does not so felly roste.