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blue belly

blue belly is the alternative form of bluebelly.

Meaning of bluebelly

Noun

bluebelly (plural bluebellies)

  1. Sceloporus occidentalis, a North American lizard.
  2. (historical) A Yankee; a Union soldier during the American civil war.
    • The 'bluebelly' instantly disclosed that the troops were Confederate.1989, Paul R. Stevenson, Cross a Wide River, →ISBN
    Synonyms:
    bluecoat

Forms of blue belly

pluralblue bellies

Questions about blue belly

What is blue belly the alternative form of?
Blue belly is the alternative form of bluebelly.

Words near blue belly in the dictionary

  1. blue beans
  2. blue beat
  3. blue beech
  4. blue beeches
  5. blue bellies
  6. blue belly
  7. blue beret
  8. blue berets
  9. blue beryl
  10. blue bible
  11. blue bibles

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Adapted from Wiktionary: blue belly (page history and authors); bluebelly (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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