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belly-ful|ˈbɛlɪfʊl|
[f. belly n. + -ful.]
1. As much as the belly will contain; a sufficiency of food.
1573Tusser Husb. (1878) 101 No spoone meat, no bellifull, labourers thinke. 1595Spenser Epithal. 251 Poure not by cups, but by the bellyfull. 1755Smollett Quix. (1803) IV. 158, I never once had my belly-full, even of dry bread. 1881J. Hawthorne Fort. Fool i. xxiii, What I need now is a bellyful of venison and acorn-bread.
2. A sufficiency; quite as much (of anything) as one wants or cares to take. (Now rather coarse.)
1535Coverdale Ezek. xxvi. 2, I haue destroyed my bely full. 1583Golding Calv. on Deut. ci. 684 Let him thunder his belly full. 1687A. Lovell Bergerac's Com. Hist. ii. 42 The Spectators, having had their Belly-fulls of Laughing. 1705Hickeringill Priest-cr. ii. vi. 61 Take your Bellyfulls of Sermons. 1852Thackeray Esmond iii. v. (1876) 357 The nation had had its bellyful of fighting. |