Belly
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 womb.
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.
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Belly Quotations
He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.
John Lennon
It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.
Mahatma Gandhi
One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
Robert A. Heinlein
I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.
Johnny Depp
Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.
Jonathan Swift
He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.
Samuel Johnson
Rebellions of the belly are the worst.
Francis Bacon
I love my work with a frenetic and perverse love, as an ascetic loves the hair shirt which scratches his belly.
Gustave Flaubert
Luther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown, and the monks in their belly.
Desiderius Erasmus
There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
Belly Translations
belly in Danish is bug
belly in Dutch is buik
belly in Finnish is vatsa
belly in French is ventre
belly in German is Bauch, Leib, Bauchs
belly in Italian is pancia, rumine
belly in Latin is abdomen, venter, uterus
belly in Norwegian is buk, mave
belly in Portuguese is barriga, ventre
belly in Spanish is barriga, tufo, vientre
belly in Swedish is mage
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