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bellybutton

bellybutton noun: the navel or umbilicus.

Noun

bellybutton (plural bellybuttons)

  1. (informal) The navel or umbilicus.
    • Always used to have pain about navel when a boy (used to call it bellybutton ache)[…]1909, The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal
    • Some people can’t even bear the thought of picking the fluff out of their bellybuttons - these people suffer from what is known as omphalophobia.2019 June, “Five phobias you didn’t know existed”, in BBC Bitesize

bellybutton meaning in Kannada

bellybutton in Kannada

ಹೊಕ್ಕುಳು, ನಾಭಿ

Forms of bellybutton

pluralbellybuttons
alternative formbelly button

Origin of bellybutton

From belly + button.

Questions about bellybutton

What does bellybutton mean?
Bellybutton means the navel or umbilicus.
What is bellybutton in Kannada?
Bellybutton in Kannada is ಹೊಕ್ಕುಳು, ನಾಭಿ. See Bellybutton meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is bellybutton?
Bellybutton is a noun.
What is the plural of bellybutton?
The plural of bellybutton is bellybuttons.

Words near bellybutton in the dictionary

  1. bellyboard
  2. bellyboarding
  3. bellyboards
  4. bellyboat
  5. bellyboats
  6. bellybutton
  7. bellybuttons
  8. bellycheer
  9. bellycrawl
  10. bellycrawled
  11. bellycrawling

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bellybutton (page history and authors); bellybutton (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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