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bellylaugh

bellylaugh is the alternative form of belly laugh.

Meaning of belly laugh

Noun

belly laugh (plural belly laughs)

  1. A deep, hearty laugh
    • The consistency of characterization that allows Fredricks to move from belly laughs to really serious moments within a matter of a few moments.1979 December 22, Michael Bronski, “Small Lives in a Small Town”, in Gay Community News, volume 2, number 22, page 17
    Synonyms:
    guffaw

See all 2 meanings of belly laugh

Forms of bellylaugh

Noun
pluralbellylaughs
Verb
third-person singular presentbellylaughs
present participlebellylaughing
past participlebellylaughed
pastbellylaughed

Origin of bellylaugh

From belly + laugh.

Questions about bellylaugh

What is bellylaugh the alternative form of?
Bellylaugh is the alternative form of belly laugh.

Words near bellylaugh in the dictionary

  1. bellying out
  2. bellying up
  3. bellying up to the bar
  4. bellyings
  5. bellyland
  6. bellylaugh
  7. bellylaughed
  8. bellylaughing
  9. bellylaughs
  10. bellyless
  11. bellylike

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bellylaugh (page history and authors); belly laugh (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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