belly
The abdomen (especially a fat one).
Example
“You've grown a belly over Christmas! Time to join the gym again.”
Other meanings
The lower fuselage of an airplane.
The part of anything which resembles (either closely or abstractly) the human belly in protuberance or in concavity; often, the (innermost part).
A kind of
- fatty tissue
Kinds of belly
- pot
Word history
From Old English "bielġ" (bag, pouch, bulge).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “belly” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.