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An undesirable overabundance
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bellyful
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Le Conte du ventre plein (international English title: Bellyful ) is a 2000 film written and directed by Melvin Van Peebles .
Wiktionary
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n. (context informal English) An undesirable large quantity of something
WordNet
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n. an undesirable overabundance; "a bellyful of your complaints"
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
figuratively, "enough and more," 1530s, from belly (n.) + -ful . Older than the literal sense (1570s).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bellyful \Bel"ly*ful\, n. As much as satisfies the appetite. Hence: A great abundance; more than enough. --Lloyd. King James told his son that he would have his bellyful of parliamentary impeachments. --Johnson.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Bob likes a Cadillac, because, being a Teamster, he gets a bellyful of road and likes a nice ride. ▪ But I'd had a bellyful of your family and I just wanted to stay out of the whole rotten business.
Usage examples of bellyful.
It was my idea those Apaches had them a bellyful, but they weren't alone, and this was no place to dally.
The Drunkard's Tower, off in the bog where the south and west walls had once met, leaned like a man about to spew a bellyful of wine into the gutter.
Flying was great, but a few more battles like this would give him a bellyful of glory and achievement.
What with the long climb and the bellyful of bread and soup, he is dropping off with fatigue.
Only at this point I've had my bellyful, -and so help me God, I would gladly trade dinner in the Kremlin for one honest-to-God whiff of Navy stack gas.
Days there were, no doubt, when she had a bellyful, as we say – but no more than that!
And since he has had a bellyful of all the good places he suggests now that I show him something more primitive.
Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.
Tonight you'll be walking around in London and you'll get a good bellyful of English.
How many bellyfuls of nectar would it take, he wondered, to make a pint of honey?
On April 1, 1943, a Junker squadron dropped several bellyfuls of five hundred-pounders on the First Armored command post in the Wadi Akarit, north of Ei Hamma.
They crept up to the piers and opened the doors in their noses and took on their bellyfuls of tanks and loaded tracks and then slipped out and sat at anchor and waited for the “D” day at the “H” hour, which very few in the whole Army knew.
I took the Cross because I had my bellyful of squabbles and compoundings for earthly kingdoms-when King John made peace with Philip at the cost of Evreux and many another good town, and did homage to him for Brittany, that galled me close.
Cut this wreckage away first, and we'll give the Dagoes their bellyful after.
True, he weighed hardly anything at all, but what with the lack of sleep and dinner I was a good way below par and, moreover, I'd had my bellyful of junkies.