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单词 belly
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Idioms for belly

    go / turn belly up, Informal. to come to an end; die; fail: After years of barely surviving on donations, the neighborhood social club finally went belly up.

Origin of belly

before 950; Middle English bely,Old English belig, belg bag, skin; cognate with German Balg,Gothic balgs,Old Norse belgr sack; akin to Welsh bol(a), boly,Irish bolg sack, belly, bellows, Serbo-Croatian blàzina,Latvian pabàlsts,Avestan barəziš-,Persian bālish cushion

OTHER WORDS FROM belly

bel·ly·like, adjective

Words nearby belly

bell the cat, who will, bell-topper, bellwether, Bellwood, bellwort, belly, bellyache, bellyband, bellyboard, belly bust, bellybutton
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British Dictionary definitions for belly

belly
/ (ˈbɛlɪ) /

noun plural -lies

verb -lies, -lying or -lied

to swell out or cause to swell out; bulge

Word Origin for belly

Old English belig; related to Old High German balg, Old Irish bolg sack, Sanskrit barhi chaff
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Idioms and Phrases with belly

belly

see go belly up.

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Medical definitions for belly

belly
[ bĕlē ]

n.

abdomen
The stomach.
The womb; the uterus.
The bulging, central part of a muscle.venter
The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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