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bellyache
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. complain; "What was he hollering about?" [syn: gripe , grouse , crab , beef , squawk , holler ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Bellyache may refer to: abdominal pain bellyache bush , a flowering plant native to Mexico, South America and the Caribbean islands Bellyache (song) , a song by Echobelly an informal term for a complaint
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Any pain in the belly, stomach, or abdomen. vb. To complain or whine, especially needlessly.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bellyache \Bel"ly*ache`\, v. i. to complain, especially in a whining or grumbling manner; to gripe. Syn: gripe, whine, complain, moan, snivel, grumble, squawk.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also belly-ache , 1590s, from belly (n.) + ache (n.). The verb in the slang sense of "complain" is first recorded 1888, American English; it appears not to have been used earlier than that, if ever, in a literal sense. Related: bellyached ; bellyaching .
Usage examples of bellyache.
This town is full of stuffed shirts, do you know what is funny, son, they all bellyache here because the English come over and tell them what they ought to do about the war, and so they, the Easterners, tell us Middlewesterners what WE ought to do abt war.
Meat was meat, protein was protein, and in the truly barren expanses of any world, scavengers would always eat first and suffer any bellyaching consequences later.
For all the bellyaching, Horowitz says, fired Communists fared pretty well.
Buck Hoey, the wiseguy shortstop whod bellyached about the first baseman who hadnt come to practice, hopped down last, near a blue frame house with more shrubs and a prettier paint job than any house around it.
I never bellyached about my problems, so my family didn't really know how unhappy I felt.
He was at the tavern more often than she wanted him to be, so she bellyached constantly.
You are already an officer of the corporation as Special Assistant Secretary assigned to record for the board-and I made you that, you'll both remember, to shut up Parkinson when he bellyached about my secretary being present during an executive session.
And when the plane crashes in the Nevada desert, everyone says, `Oh Aunt Sally, that bellyache was really the grace of God.
Once, Sianadh had eaten glamoured victuals at a siofran fair and suffered nothing worse than a bellyache.
He might languish of bellyache until crows came to peck out his eyes.
Numbweed, for one, feather herb and tuft grass for fever, red wort for infection, pink root for bellyache, oh all manner of things.
He kept bellyaching that he wanted to go back to the Tularosa Agency before he just went wild some more.
And the wild cherries were now ripe enough to eat without too much fear of bellyache.