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Bellyful

Definition: Bellyful

Bellyful

Noun

1. An undesirable overabundance: "a bellyful of your complaints".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "bellyful" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

 

Synonyms within Context: Bellyful

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Completeness

Impletion; saturation, saturity; high water; high tide, flood tide, spring tide; fill, load, bumper, bellyful; brimmer; sufficiency.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Usage Frequency: Bellyful

"Bellyful" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Bellyful" is used about 9 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%9117,287

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Bellyful

Expressions using "bellyful": have had a bellyful of have had a bellyful of smb. he's had a bellyful. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Bellyful

Language Translations for "bellyful"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

sasi e bollshme. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مل ء (filling, padding), ‏مقدار كبير متخم. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

достатъчно за да се наям, достатъчно за да се наситя. (various references)

   

Czech

  

sytost (depth). (various references)

   

French

  

ventre plein. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מלוא "כרס (stomachful). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

bőséges étkezés (gorge, hearty meal, large meal, liberal table). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

mual (queasy), jemu. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

腹一杯 (full stomach, to one's heart's content). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

はらいっぱい (full stomach, to one's heart's content). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ellyfulbay

   

Russian 

  

сытость (fullness, fulness), пресыщение (glut, gorge, repletion, satiation). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

dovoljna količina. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

panzada (bellyflop), atracón (gluttony). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

så mycket man orkar. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

bıkkınlık (boredom, disgust, ennui, surfeit, tedium, tiredness, weariness, willies). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

ситість. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

bolaid. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Bellyful

Derivations

Words beginning with "bellyful": bellyfuls. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Bellyful" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ballymun. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Bellyful"

Words rhyming with "bellyful" (pronounced 'Bel"ly*ful'): Abuseful, Adventureful, Affrightful, Aidful, Amazeful, Amendful, Annoyful, Apronful, Armful, Artful, Assistful, Avengeful, Aviseful, Awful, Baleful, Baneful, Barful, Bashful, Basketful, Bateful, Batful, Beamful, Beautiful, Behooveful, Beliefful, Bitterful, Blameful, Blissful, Blitheful, Blushful, Boastful, Boatful, Bodeful, Bookful, Bountiful, Breathful, Bretful, Brimful, Capful, Careful, Causeful, Chanceful, Changeful, Chargeful, Charmful, Cheerful, Choiceful, Complaintful, Contentful, Corruptful. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Bellyful

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-e-f-l-l-l-u-y"

-2 letters: bluely.

-3 letters: belly, bluey, bully, felly, fully.

-4 letters: bell, blue, bull, fell, fley, flub, flue, fuel, full, lube, lull, yell, yule.

-5 letters: bel, bey, buy, bye, elf, ell, feu, fey, flu, fly, fub, leu, ley, lye.

 Words containing the letters "b-e-f-l-l-l-u-y"
 

+1 letter: balefully, bellyfuls.

 

+2 letters: blamefully.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Bellyful


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 65 6C 6C 79 66 75 6C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-...    .    .-..    .-..    -.--.    ..-.    ..-    .-..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01100101 01101100 01101100 01111001 01100110 01110101 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#101 &#108 &#108 &#121 &#102 &#117 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0065 006C 006C 0079 0066 0075 006C

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3671787891728778

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage Frequency
3. Expressions
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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