belly

Pronunciation: /ˈbɛli/

The English word “belly” has 10 meanings listed here.

noun

The abdomen (especially a fat one).
stomach (an organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion)
uterus (a reproductive organ of therian mammals in which the young are conceived and develop until birth)
The lower fuselage of an airplane.
The part of anything which resembles (either closely or abstractly) the human belly in protuberance or in concavity; often, the fundus (innermost part).
The main curved portion of a knife blade.
The hollow part of a curved or bent timber, the convex part of which is the back.

verb

To position one’s belly; to move on one’s belly.
To swell and become protuberant; to bulge or billow.
To cause to swell out; to fill.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English bely, beli, bali, below, belew, balyw, from Old English bielġ (“bag, pouch, bulge”), from Proto-West Germanic *balgi, *balgu, from Proto-Germanic *balgiz, *balguz (“skin, hide, bellows, bag”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ- (“to swell, blow up”). Cognate with Dutch balg, German Balg, Danish bælg, Old Irish bolg, Welsh bol. Doublet of bellows, blague, bulge, and…

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