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Belly vs Tammy - What's the difference?

belly | tammy |

As nouns the difference between belly and tammy

is that belly is the abdomen while tammy is a kind of woolen, or woolen and cotton, cloth, often highly glazed, used for curtains, sieves, strainers, etc.

As a verb belly

is to position one's belly.

As a proper noun Tammy is

a female given name popular in the 1960s and the 1970s.

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

    tammy

    English

    (wikipedia tammy)

    Etymology 1

    Origin uncertain; compare obsolete French tamise (but if there was borrowing, it's unclear in which direction).

    Noun

    (tammies)
  • A kind of woolen, or woolen and cotton, cloth, often highly glazed, used for curtains, sieves, strainers, etc.
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) tamis, assimilated to Etymology 1, above.

    Noun

    (tammies)
  • A sieve, or strainer; a tamis.
  • Etymology 3

    Shortened from (tammy shanter).

    Noun

    (tammies)
  • A tam o’shanter hat.