belly

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The abdomen (especially a fat one).
    — You've grown a belly over Christmas! Time to join the gym again.
  2. stomach (an organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion)
    — My belly was full of wine.
  3. uterus (a reproductive organ of therian mammals in which the young are conceived and develop until birth) countable
    — Before I formed thee in the bellie, I knew thee; […]
  4. The lower fuselage of an airplane.
    — There was no heat, and we shivered in the belly of the plane.
  5. The part of anything which resembles (either closely or abstractly) the human belly in protuberance or in concavity; often, the fundus (innermost part).
    — the belly of a flask, muscle, violin, sail, or ship
  6. The part of anything which resembles (either closely or abstractly) the human belly in protuberance or in concavity; often, the fundus (innermost part).; The main curved portion of a knife blade.
  7. The part of anything which resembles (either closely or abstractly) the human belly in protuberance or in concavity; often, the fundus (innermost part).; The hollow part of a curved or bent timber, the convex part of which is the back.
动词 v.
  1. To position one’s belly; to move on one’s belly.
    — Bellying forward to the edge of the clearing, he found Hans, lying on his face, feathered with arrows like a porcupine.
  2. To swell and become protuberant; to bulge or billow. intransitive
    — The Pow'r appeaſ'd, with Winds ſuffic'd the Sail, / The bellying Canvaſs ſtrutted with the Gale; […]
  3. To cause to swell out; to fill. transitive
    — Your breath of full consent bellied his sails; […]

词形变化

bellies plural bellie alternative,archaic bellies present,singular,third-person bellying participle,present bellied participle,past bellied past bellie alternative,archaic

词汇关系

近义词
abdomen belly midriff stomach tum tummy tum-tum ventrum
下位词
beer belly beer gut gut paunch potbelly
衍生词
Bali belly beer belly bellyache belly-aching belly bag belly-band belly band bellyband belly boat belly breathing belly buster bellybutton belly button belly-button belly button ring belly chain bellycheer bellycrawl belly dance belly-dance belly dancer belly-dancer belly dancing belly-dumper belly dumper belly-flop belly flop bellyflop belly flopper bellyful belly-god belly itcher belly landing bellylaugh belly laugh belly-laugh bellyless bellylike bellyload belly of the beast belly of the whale belly pork belly ring bellyscraper belly shirt belly spark belly sweetbread belly-tember belly-timber belly-timmer belly trap belly-up belly-up peach belly up to the bar belly vengeance belly-wahk bellywark belly-wark bellywash belly whop belly whopper bluebelly blue belly Buddha belly Buddha belly bamboo copperbelly corona belly Delhi belly double belly buster drum belly empathy belly firebelly fire in one's belly fire in the belly fishbelly fish belly girder fish-belly girder go belly-up gorbelly jelly belly kettlebelly lower than a snake's belly one's belly thinks one's throat has been cut pinch-belly pinch-belly vengeance pink belly plead the belly pork belly porridge belly possum belly potbelly pot belly pot-belly prune belly syndrome pufferbelly redbelly sawbelly shadbelly sharpbelly slow belly snakebelly sourbelly sowbelly speckled-belly sugar belly swagbelly swillbelly swill-belly tenterbelly tun-belly underbelly whip-belly whip-belly vengeance whistle-belly vengeance whitebelly wolf in one's belly yellow belly yellowbelly bellying belly out belly up
相关词
abdomen bouk have eyes bigger than one's belly midriff stomach tummy
部分词
happy trail navel

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-is
Proto-Indo-European *bʰólǵʰis
Proto-Germanic *balgiz
Proto-West Germanic *balgi
Old English bielġ
Middle English bely
English belly
Inherited from Middle English bely, beli, bali, below, belew, balyw, from Old English bielġ (“bag, pouch, bulge”), from Proto-West Germanic *balgi, *balgu, from Proto-Germanic *balgiz, *balguz (“skin, hide, bellows, bag”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ- (“to swell, blow up”). Cognate with Dutch balg, German Balg, Danish bælg, Old Irish bolg, Welsh bol. Doublet of bellows, blague, bulge, and budge. See also bellows.
For the belly — bellows relation, compare typologically Macedonian мев (mev, “abdomen, belly; bellows”). Also compare Ancient Greek φῦσα (phûsa, “bellows; bladder; ...”), Latin venter — vēsīca, Russian пу́зо (púzo) — пузы́рь (puzýrʹ), пузырёк (puzyrjók).
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-is
Proto-Indo-European *bʰólǵʰis
Proto-Germanic *balgiz
Proto-West Germanic *balgi
Old English bielġ
Middle English bely
English belly
Inherited from Middle English bely, beli, bali, below, belew, balyw, from Old English bielġ (“bag, pouch, bulge”), from Proto-West Germanic *balgi, *balgu, from Proto-Germanic *balgiz, *balguz (“skin, hide, bellows, bag”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ- (“to swell, blow up”). Cognate with Dutch balg, German Balg, Danish bælg, Old Irish bolg, Welsh bol. Doublet of bellows, blague, bulge, and budge. See also bellows.
For the belly — bellows relation, compare typologically Macedonian мев (mev, “abdomen, belly; bellows”). Also compare Ancient Greek φῦσα (phûsa, “bellows; bladder; ...”), Latin venter — vēsīca, Russian пу́зо (púzo) — пузы́рь (puzýrʹ), пузырёк (puzyrjók).
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