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belly-wahk

belly-wahk is the alternative spelling of bellywark.

Meaning of bellywark

Noun

bellywark (countable and uncountable, plural bellywarks)

  1. (Midlands, Northern England) A pain in the stomach; bellyache; colic; gripe.
    • "Nay, nay," replied Charley, "I'm noen soea weel this morning, I've had th' bellywark vary bad, an' I'm feared it 'ell start again if I knock abaet, I'd rather ne quiet."1869, A. Lodge, Forty Years Ago, page 22
  2. (Yorkshire) A shot in marbles made with the taw held against the belly.

Forms of belly-wahk

pluralbelly-wahks

Questions about belly-wahk

What is belly-wahk the alternative spelling of?
Belly-wahk is the alternative spelling of bellywark.

Words near belly-wahk in the dictionary

  1. belly-timbers
  2. belly-timmer
  3. belly-up
  4. belly-up peach
  5. belly-up peaches
  6. belly-wahk
  7. belly-wahks
  8. belly-wark
  9. belly-warks
  10. bellyache
  11. bellyache bush

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Adapted from Wiktionary: belly-wahk (page history and authors); bellywark (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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