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belly-aching

belly-aching is the alternative form of bellyaching.

Meaning of bellyaching

Noun

bellyaching (countable and uncountable, plural bellyachings)

  1. Whining and complaining, often contrived to evoke pity or shirk responsibility.
    • Quit your bellyaching and get back to work!

Forms of belly-aching

pluralbelly-achings

Questions about belly-aching

What is belly-aching the alternative form of?
Belly-aching is the alternative form of bellyaching.

Words near belly-aching in the dictionary

  1. belly whop
  2. belly whopper
  3. belly whoppers
  4. belly whops
  5. belly wrap
  6. belly-aching
  7. belly-achings
  8. belly-band
  9. belly-bands
  10. belly-busting
  11. belly-button

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Adapted from Wiktionary: belly-aching (page history and authors); bellyaching (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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