| 单词 | midriff |
| 释义 | midriff (once / 23085 pages) n Your midriff is your belly. Wearing a shirt that shows off your midriff might be banned at your school. The center of your body's front side, generally the area under your ribcage and above your waist or hips, can be called the midriff. This noun is sometimes used as a substitute for belly or waist, especially when someone is wearing clothes that deliberately expose this area. Your bikini reveals your midriff, but your winter coat covers your midriff. In Old English, the word was midhrif, from hrif, "belly." WORD FAMILYmidriff: midriffs USAGE EXAMPLESThe action is my hand on her midriff, which is skin. Washington Times(Dec 05, 2016) His clothing was pulled up to reveal his midriff, just as Anthony Walgate's had been. BBC(Nov 23, 2016) But it’s party season in New York, and they’ve been cracking down on the whole midriff bulge thing this year. New York Times(Nov 17, 2016) 1n the middle area of the human torso (usually in front) young American women believe that a bare midriff is fashionable Syn|Hyper middle, midsection area, region a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve 2n (anatomy) a muscular partition separating the abdominal and thoracic cavities; functions in respiration Syn|Hyper diaphragm membrane, tissue layer a pliable sheet of tissue that covers or lines or connects the organs or cells of animals or plants muscle system, muscular structure, musculaturethe muscular system of an organism |
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