[
UK
/bˈɛlɪˌeɪk/
]
[ US /ˈbɛɫiˌeɪk/ ]
[ US /ˈbɛɫiˌeɪk/ ]
NOUN
- an ache localized in the stomach or abdominal region
VERB
-
complain
What was he hollering about?
How To Use bellyache In A Sentence
- There were no technicians with the latest equipment waiting to help him decipher the coughs, bellyaches, chest pains, dizzy spells and fevers that ailed his patients.
- The working masochists came off as bellyachers and had a penchant for making people listen to their workplace war stories.
- ‘This bottle of wine that's $27 on your list is just $9 at the store down the block,’ the customer bellyaches.
- There's a definite liberal bias in these so-called 'comics'," claimed the prodigious bellyacher. The Aristocrats
- You may complain, they say; you may grouch about globalisation, bellyache about environmental destruction, grizzle about consumer society.
- Rather than bellyache about who owns what media outlets, with a mealy-mouthed ‘it's not fair’ position, perhaps more honest debate and more public discussion would expose the vacuous nature of many current arguments.
- A great banquet was served during the day, and I often gave myself a bellyache by eating too much while listening to speaker after speaker.
- You may complain, they say; you may grouch about globalisation, bellyache about environmental destruction, grizzle about consumer society.
- Yesterday's winners were loitering about, looking hopeful, but the chicha had given us bellyaches, and it was time to go.
- No matter if you wanted to go out, or had bellyache and couldn't swallow a thing---you sat down As A Family and talked together. READY?