Belly vs Helly - What's the difference?
belly | helly |
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
Hellish, infernal.
* 1603', Samuel Harsnet, ''A Declaration of Egregious Popish Impostures'', quoted in '''2013 in ''Shakespeare's England: Life in Elizabethan & Jacobean Times (ISBN 0750952822):
* 1892 , Theodore Sydney Vaughn, Satan in Arms Against Columbus , page 138:
As a noun belly
is the abdomen.As a verb belly
is to position one's belly.As an adjective helly is
hellish, infernal.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 uphelly
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- These monster-swarms his Holiness and his helly crew have scraped and raked together out of old doting historiographers, wizardising augurs, imposturing soothsayers, dreaming poets, chimerical conceiters, and coiners of fables, .
- Then wavered all the rebel rings, And of a sudden, ere a single blow Was struck, precipitous they shrieking fled, And sought the portals of their Helly home.