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belling up

belling up is the present participle and gerund of bell up.

Meaning of bell up

Verb

bell up (third-person singular simple present bells up, present participle belling up, simple past and past participle belled up)

  1. (UK, slang) To make a phone call.
    • He belled me up last week.
  2. (intransitive, usually) To form the shape of a bell.
    • The smoke belled up toward the horizon.

Questions about belling up

What is belling up the present participle and gerund of?
Belling up is the present participle and gerund of bell up.

Words near belling up in the dictionary

  1. Bellina
  2. Bellinas
  3. belling
  4. belling out
  5. belling the cat
  6. belling up
  7. Bellingen
  8. Bellinger
  9. bellingerite
  10. Bellingers
  11. Bellingham

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Adapted from Wiktionary: belling up (page history and authors); bell up (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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