Bellyache

Definitions: Bellyache

Bellyache

Noun

1. An ache localized in the stomach or abdominal region.

Verb

1. Complain; "What was he hollering about?".

Synonyms: Bellyache

Synonyms: gastralgia (n), stomach ache (n), stomachache (n), beef (v), gripe (v), grouse (v), holler (v), squawk (v). (additional references)

Crosswords: Bellyache

Specialty definitions using "bellyache": INDIGESTION. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	They give me a bellyache, and I've got a beauty right now. (Star Trek; writing credit: Walter Black; William Hamilton)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Baby Brown Bear's Big Bellyache (reference) Sage of Bellyache Flats (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	INDIGESTION, n. A disease which the patient and his friends frequently mistake for deep religious conviction and concern for the salvation of mankind. As the simple Red Man of the western wild put it, with, it must be confessed, a certain force: "Plenty well, no pray; big bellyache, heap God."
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Bellyache" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Bellyache" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	6	143,867

Language		Translations for "bellyache"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		dhimbje barku (colic, cramps). (various references)

Bulgarian		стомашна болка. (various references)

Czech		bolení břicha (stomach ache, stomachache), runcat (gripe). (various references)

Farsi		قولنج (Colic, Gripe), شکم درد, دل درد. (various references)

French		rogne rouspétance, mal au ventre. (various references)

German		murren (bellyaching, grumble, murmur, murmuring, mutter, muttering, repine, to repine), jammern (groan, lament, lamentation, moan, squeal, to lament, wail, wailing, whine, yammer). (various references)

Greek		κοιλόπονοσ (tummy ache), γκρινιάζω χωρίσ λόγο, παραπονούμαι (complain, repine at, squawk), πονόκοιλοσ. (various references)

Hungarian		hasfájás (gripes, pain in the stomach, stomach ache). (various references)

Indonesian		sakit perut. (various references)

Italian		mal di pancia (stomach, stomach ache, tummy, tummy ache, tummyache), lamentarsi (bemoan, bewail, complain, grieve, groan, grumble, howl, lament, moan, mourn, protest, squawk, wail, whine). (various references)

Manx		cremey (fault-finding). (various references)

Pig Latin		ellyachebay

Russian		колики в животе. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		uložiti žalbu (appeal against), trbobolja, gunđati (chide, croak, grudge, grumble, repine, yammer), žalba (bitch, complaint, grievance, gripe, kick, plaint, query). (various references)

Spanish		quejarse (address a complaint, beef, bitch, carry on, complain, crab, gripe, groan, grouse, grumble, kick, moan, murmur, natter, niggle, quarrel, repine, sound off, squeal, take on, wail, whimper, yammer, yap), dolor de tripa. (various references)

Swedish		magknip (collywobbles, gripe, stomach ache, tummy ache). (various references)

Turkish		karın ağrısı (collywobbles, gastralgia, stomachache, worry). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "bellyache": bellyached, bellyacher, bellyachers, bellyaches. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Bellyache" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bailhache, Baltacha, biblische. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-e-h-l-l-y"
	-2 letters: eyeball.
	-3 letters: beachy, beechy, bleach, cellae, chally, chelae, leachy, lychee.
	-4 letters: abele, allee, alley, bally, beach, beech, belay, belch, belle, belly, cable, celeb, cella, chela, chyle, label, lacey, leach, leech, lycea, lycee.
	-5 letters: able, ably, abye, ache, achy, acyl, alec, alee, ally, bach, bale, ball, bell, blae, blah, call, cell, chay, clay, each, eche.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-c-e-e-h-l-l-y"
	+1 letter: bellyached, bellyacher, bellyaches.
	+2 letters: bellyachers.
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