Crossword clues for bellyache
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bellyache \Bel"ly*ache`\, n. Pain in the bowels; colic.
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
Wiktionary
n. Any pain in the belly, stomach, or abdomen. vb. To complain or whine, especially needlessly.
WordNet
n. an ache localized in the stomach or abdominal region [syn: stomachache, stomach ache, gastralgia]
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
"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 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.