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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bellyache
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Foster parents were as likely as their wards to find a justifiable cause for bellyache.
▪ He was thinking about his terrible bellyache.
▪ She used to give you silverweed for freckles and camomile for bellyache.
▪ The problem with such puddles, Rubberneck would suffer violent bellyaches and explosive diarrhoea.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bellyache

Bellyache \Bel"ly*ache`\, n. Pain in the bowels; colic.

Bellyache

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
bellyache

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.

Wiktionary
bellyache

n. Any pain in the belly, stomach, or abdomen. vb. To complain or whine, especially needlessly.

WordNet
bellyache

v. complain; "What was he hollering about?" [syn: gripe, grouse, crab, beef, squawk, holler]

bellyache

n. an ache localized in the stomach or abdominal region [syn: stomachache, stomach ache, gastralgia]

Wikipedia
Bellyache

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
Bellyache (song)

"Bellyache" is the first single released by the Britpop band Echobelly in 1993. The songs "Bellyache" and "Give Her A Gun" were re-recorded for their debut album, Everyone's Got One. The other two b-sides, "Sleeping Hitler" and "I Don't Belong Here" were re-recorded and released as b-sides to "Kali Yuga", from the album People Are Expensive. The EP was also released on 12" vinyl.

The song was included on both of the greatest hits albums that Echobelly have released; I Can't Imagine The World Without Me and The Best Of Echobelly. The b-sides were also re-released on the expanded version of Everyone's Got One.

No video was made for the song. The song is about a friend who went through abortion.

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 who’d bellyached about the first baseman who hadn’t 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.