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What is the difference between bellyache and belly?

bellyache | belly |

Bellyache is a derived term of belly.


As nouns the difference between bellyache and belly

is that bellyache is any pain in the belly, stomach, or abdomen while belly is the abdomen.

As verbs the difference between bellyache and belly

is that bellyache is to complain or whine, especially needlessly while belly is to position one's belly.

bellyache

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any pain in the belly, stomach, or abdomen.
    • Eating too much candy can give you a bellyache .

    Synonyms

    * stomachache * tummyache

    Verb

    (bellyach)
  • To complain or whine, especially needlessly.
    • Quit bellyaching about the problem and help us fix it.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * bellyacher

    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