bellyfuln.
/ˈbɛlɪfʊl/, U.S. /ˈbɛliˌfʊl/ 1. As much as the belly will contain; a sufficiency of food.
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the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [noun] > feeding > condition of being full > amount to cause fullness
fillc893
fultha1400
bellyful1580
the world > relative properties > measurement > the scientific measurement of volume > measure(s) of capacity > amount defined by capacity > [noun] > amount that fills part of body > stomach
wombfula1387
wombful?a1475
bellyful1580
stomachful1865
gutful1900
1580 T. Tusser Fiue Hundred Pointes Good Husbandrie (new ed.) f. 42v No spoone meate, no bellifull, labourers thinke.
1595 E. Spenser Epithalamion in Amoretti & Epithalamion xiv. sig. H2v Poure not by cups, but by the belly full.
1755 T. Smollett tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote II. iv. iii. 350 I never once had my belly full, even of dry bread.
1881 J. Hawthorne Fortune's Fool (1883) i. xxiii What I need now is a bellyful of venison and acorn-bread.
2. A sufficiency; quite as much (of anything) as one wants or cares to take. (Now rather coarse.)
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the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > enough to satisfy want or desire
fillc893
fulla1225
fillinga1400
sufficiencec1450
bellyful1535
stakinga1595
wameful1722
skinful1897
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ezek. xxvi. 2 I haue destroyed my bely full.
1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie ci. 684 Let him thunder his belly full.
1687 A. Lovell tr. C. de Bergerac Comical Hist. ii. 42 The Spectators, having had their Belly-fulls of Laughing.
?1706 E. Hickeringill Priest-craft: 2nd Pt. vi. 61 Take your Belly fulls of Sermons.
1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond III. v. 126 The nation had had its bellyful of fighting.
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