Crossword clues for belly
belly
- Navel base?
- Beer __
- Beer-drinker's middle name?
- Beer drinker's protrusion
- Word with pot or beer
- Word with laugh or dance
- Stomach, so to speak
- Star-___ Sneetch (Seuss character)
- Santa's protuberance
- Santa's middle name?
- Part of Santa that shakes when he laughs
- Jelly ___ (brand of jelly beans)
- It has a button in the middle
- Hearty guffaw, ... laugh
- Food processor, of a sort
- Body part with a "button"
- Bang ____ ( Newfie cake )
- __ dancer
- Corporation to fail — botched entry from board
- Humorous issue that shakes corporation?
- Loud guffaw
- Middle Eastern entertainer
- Food processor?
- Abdomen
- Mideastern dancer's asset
- Word before dance or laugh
- "Button" site
- Stomach, informally
- ___ dance
- Paunch
- Underside of a ship
- Chicken's yellow part?
- The region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis
- A protruding abdomen
- The underpart of the body of certain vertebrates such as snakes or fish
- Kind of dancer
- Kind of laugh
- Fuselage part
- Rio dance
- Be left with large and ultimately unlovely stomach
- Spare tire
- Type of dancer
- Beer ____( Slang for a Kokanee swiller )
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Belly \Bel"ly\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bellied; p. pr. & vb. n. Bellying.] To cause to swell out; to fill. [R.]
Your breath of full consent bellied his sails.
--Shak.
Belly \Bel"ly\, v. i. To swell and become protuberant, like the belly; to bulge.
The bellying canvas strutted with the gale.
--Dryden.
Belly \Bel"ly\ (b[e^]l"l[y^]), n.; pl. Bellies (-l[i^]z). [OE. bali, bely, AS. belg, b[ae]lg, b[ae]lig, bag, bellows, belly; akin to Icel. belgr bag, bellows, Sw. b["a]lg, Dan. b[ae]lg, D. & G. balg, cf. W. bol the paunch or belly, dim. boly, Ir. bolg. Cf. Bellows, Follicle, Fool, Bilge.]
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That part of the human body which extends downward from the breast to the thighs, and contains the bowels, or intestines; the abdomen.
Note: Formerly all the splanchnic or visceral cavities were called bellies; -- the lower belly being the abdomen; the middle belly, the thorax; and the upper belly, the head.
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The under part of the body of animals, corresponding to the human belly.
Underneath the belly of their steeds.
--Shak. -
The womb. [Obs.]
Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee.
--Jer. i. 5. -
The part of anything which resembles the human belly in protuberance or in cavity; the innermost part; as, the belly of a flask, muscle, sail, ship.
Out of the belly of hell cried I.
--Jonah ii. 2. -
(Arch.) The hollow part of a curved or bent timber, the convex part of which is the back.
Belly doublet, a doublet of the 16th century, hanging down so as to cover the belly.
--Shak.Belly fretting, the chafing of a horse's belly with a girth.
--Johnson.Belly timber, food. [Ludicrous]
--Prior.Belly worm, a worm that breeds or lives in the belly (stomach or intestines).
--Johnson.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to swell out," 1620s, from belly (n.). Related: Bellied; bellying. Old English belgan meant "to be or become angry" (a figurative sense). A comparable Greek verb-from-noun, gastrizein, meant "to hit (someone) in the belly."
Old English belg, bylig (West Saxon), bælg (Anglian) "leather bag, purse, bellows," from Proto-Germanic *balgiz "bag" (cognates: Old Norse belgr "bag, bellows," bylgja "billow," Gothic balgs "wineskin"), from PIE *bholgh-, from root *bhelgh- "to swell," an extension of *bhel- (2) "to blow, swell" (see bole). Meaning shifted to "abdomen of a human or animal" (late 13c.) as the old plural form of the noun emerged as a separate word (see bellows). Meaning "bulging part or concave surface of anything" is 1590s. The West Germanic root had a figurative or extended sense of "anger, arrogance" (as in Old English bolgenmod "enraged;" belgan (v.) "to become angry"), probably from the notion of "swelling."\n
\nIndo-European languages commonly use the same word for both the external belly and the internal (stomach, womb, etc.), but the distinction of external and internal is somewhat present in English belly/stomach; Greek gastr- (see gastric) in classical language denoted the paunch or belly, while modern science uses it only in reference to the stomach as an organ.\n
\nAs a personal name from 12c. From c.1200 as a symbol of gluttony. Belly-naked in Middle English was "stripped to the belly, completely naked." Fastidious avoidance of belly in speech and writing (compensated for by stretching the senses of imported stomach and abdomen, baby-talk tummy and misappropriated midriff) began late 18c. and the word was banished from Bibles in many early 19c. editions. Belly-punch (n.) is attested from 1811.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The abdomen. 2 The stomach, especially a fat one. 3 The womb. 4 The lower fuselage of an airplane. 5 The part of anything which resembles the human belly in protuberance or in cavity; the innermost part. 6 (context architecture English) The hollow part of a curved or bent timber, the convex part of which is the back. vb. 1 To position one's belly. 2 (context intransitive English) To swell and become protuberant; to bulge. 3 (context transitive English) To cause to swell out; to fill.
WordNet
n. the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis [syn: abdomen, venter, stomach]
a protruding abdomen [syn: paunch]
a part that bulges deeply; "the belly of a sail"
the hollow inside of something; "in the belly of the ship"
the underpart of the body of certain vertebrates such as snakes or fish
[also: bellied]
Wikipedia
Belly may refer to:
Belly is an alternative rock band formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1991 by former Throwing Muses member Tanya Donelly (who was also in The Breeders). The original lineup consisted of Donelly on lead vocals and guitar, Fred Abong on bass, and brothers Tom and Chris Gorman on guitar and drums respectively. All knew each other from high-school on Aquidneck Island, Rhode Island – the Gormans and Abong coming out of the Newport hardcore scene (the Gormans having played in Verbal Assault, Abong in Vicious Circle). Shortly after the release of Belly's first album in 1993, Abong left the group and was replaced by Gail Greenwood. Donelly disbanded the group in 1996. On February 8, 2016, Belly announced a reunion with Greenwood on its official website.
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Belly is a 1998 American crime drama film, directed by music video director Hype Williams, in his film directing debut. Filmed in New York City, the film stars rappers DMX and Nas, alongside Taral Hicks, Method Man, dancehall artist Louie Rankin and R&B singer T-Boz. Besides starring in the film, Nas also narrates and collaborated with Hype Williams on the film's script along with DMX (who, uncredited, also narrates the beginning and the end parts of the film).
Ahmad Balshe (born April 7, 1984), better known by his stage name Belly, is a Palestinian Canadian Juno Award-winning rapper.
Born in Jenin, Palestine, his musical career has been based in Ottawa, Ontario. In addition to a Juno, he has won three MuchMusic Video Awards and has twice attained a top chart position in the national Much Music Countdown. Belly has written many #1 and platinum gold/hits for other artists. His stage name of Belly/Rebellyus was derived from the term "rebellious."
Belly was founded in August 2011 in Chicago by Logan LaHive and Craig Ulliott, receiving its initial round of around $3M in funding from Chicago-based VC firm Lightbank.
Belly provides a loyalty program for merchants, using an in-store iPad for the merchant and an app for customers. It charges merchants $50 to $100 a month for the service, which included an iPad, a case and lock for the iPad, marketing materials, plus data and analytics. Customers earn loyalty points by checking in at the store with a QR code technology to earn points that could be redeemed as a merchant chose.
Belly is the soundtrack to the 1998 film of the same name. It was released on November 3, 1998 through Def Jam Recordings and featured production from the likes of Poke & Tone, Sean Combs and Swizz Beatz. The soundtrack was a success, peaking at #5 on the Billboard 200 and #2 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, and spawned the single " Grand Finale" by rappers DMX, Method Man, Nas and Ja Rule. "Grand Finale" made it to #63 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks and #18 on the Hot Rap Singles.
Usage examples of "belly".
The belly shimmered and disappeared, and through it Alexander could see a large room with a vaulted window, opening on to a night-dark sky ablaze with stars.
His chest hair abraded her nipples, his erection pressed hard against her belly.
In some manner that I do not claim to understand, admitting this water to your bellies permits Xaefyer and other males to determine if you are queenly candidates -- not that it is likely soon to do you any good.
One foot caught Alayne in the belly, so hard it knocked the wind from her.
If he meant to survive in Alb, and he did, then he must suppress the rage, the shock, and the sickness that was moving in his belly.
We had but one spoon between us, and took turns with it, filling our bellies with warm, albeit tasteless, food.
Clutching his bow and quiver, Alec dropped and scrambled on his belly to the nearest trees.
The somnolent Amar stirred, staggered to their feet and joined him in the blue mist, snuffing up smoke greedily, expelling it, sucking in more, till they all were reeling, the sap-smoke sending them higher than the quantities of pika-beer in their bellies.
Fishing the seething tide-race through the main channel at full spring tide, and shouting with excitement as the golden amberjack came boiling up in the wake, bellies flashing like mirrors, to hit the dancing feather lures, and send the Penn reels screeching a wild protest, and the fibreglass rods nodding and kicking.
She sprawled on her belly over Amir Bedawi, her cheek rested on his chest.
Had there been a light in her belly, dim briny light in that pillowing womb, dusk enough to light a page, bacterial smear of light, an amniotic gleam that I could taste, old, deep, wet and warm?
Perhaps she had not told the king of the words Grainne my mother had said over her belly, but my mother had told them to me in sun and moon and firelight, and I knew that whatever the queen might say and the people believe, the child Ancel lived.
There was so much of her, such incredibly long legs, such an extreme flow of line and volume, Beheim became entranced by the exaggerated perspectives available, gazing up at the equatorial swell of her belly toward the flattened mounds of her breasts with their dark oases of areola and turreted nipples, or down from her breasts toward the unruly pubic tuft between her thighs, in all reminding him by its smoothness of the sand sculpture of a sleeping giantess he had seen years before on a beach in Spain.
A slight young woman, Mary developed strong muscles in the forearms as she grasped the areolar tissue, sometimes making Daisy squeal, rolled the large muscles of the calf and thigh firmly both ways and kneaded the belly with the heel of her hand.
He had drunk the best part of a bottle of arrack, had woken in the night with gripes in the belly, and then slept unevenly until dawn when someone had scratched at his door and Torrance had shouted at, the pest to go away, after which he had at last fallen into a deeper sleep.