belly meaning
EN
[bɛli] [-ɛli] 
US WBelly
- The abdomen, the part of the body between the pelvis and the thorax; or the stomach
- A beer belly, an overhang of fat above the waist, presumed to be caused by regular beer drinking
- Belly dance
- Belly may also refer to:
- NounPLbelliesPREbel-
- The abdomen.
- The stomach, especially a fat one.
- The womb.
- The lower fuselage of an airplane.
- The part of anything which resembles the human belly in protuberance or in cavity; the innermost part.
- the belly of a flask, muscle, sail, or ship
- (architecture) The hollow part of a curved or bent timber, the convex part of which is the back.
- The abdomen.
- VerbSGbelliesPRbellyingPT, PPbellied
- To position one's belly.
- (intransitive) To swell and become protuberant; to bulge.
- (transitive) To cause to swell out; to fill.
- To position one's belly.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- The man's belly protruded tubbily over his waistband.
- Enrique plunked his money down on the counter with a sigh and bellied up to the bar.
- The likely reason that the plant went belly up at that site was that a housing development went in updrainage of the site.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- A hot lion with a very bloated stomach ... will adopt either a sphinxed or a squatting posture which takes some of the weight off its belly.
- With a tremendous groan, he pulled out and ejaculated all over her belly.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of belly in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
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Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "belly" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, an intransitive verb and a transitive verb.