belly

Speech parts

1. belly - Noun

2. belly - Verb

That part of the human body which extends downward from the breast to the thighs, and contains the bowels, or intestines; the abdomen.

The under part of the body of animals, corresponding to the human belly.

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.

The hollow part of a curved or bent timber, the convex part of which is the back.

To cause to swell out; to fill.

To swell and become protuberant, like the belly; to bulge.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Better belly burst than good liquor be lost. Jonathan Swift

Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use. Andrea Dworkin

The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

An empty belly hears nobody. English Proverb

A fat belly did not invent gun powder. Greek Proverb

A woman's belly is a garden with many kinds of fruit. Arabic Proverb

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