Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular presenttense bellyaches, present participle bellyaching, past tense, past participle bellyached
1. variable noun
Bellyache is a pain inside your abdomen, especially in your stomach.
[informal]
They may complain of diarrhea or bellyache.
2. verb [usually cont]
If you say that someone is bellyaching, you mean they complain loudly and frequently about something and you think this is unreasonable or unjustified.
[informal]
...belly-aching about recession. [VERB + about]
[Also VERB]
bellyache in British English
(ˈbɛlɪˌeɪk)
noun
1. an informal term for stomachache
verb
2. (intransitive) slang
to complain repeatedly
Derived forms
bellyacher (ˈbellyˌacher)
noun
bellyache in American English
(ˈbɛliˌeɪk)
noun
1.
pain in the abdomen or bowels
verb intransitiveWord forms: ˈbellyˌached or ˈbellyˌaching US
2. Slang
to complain or grumble
Examples of 'bellyache' in a sentence
bellyache
No matter if you wanted to go out, or had bellyache and couldn't swallow a thing---you sat down As A Family and talked together.
Kate Cann READY? (2001)
People came in to see the doctor with a headache or a backache or a bellyache and it turned out to be something terminal.
Clive Barker EVERVILLE (2001)
Cazaril lay back down upon the hard boards, curled around his bellyache, for half the turning of a glass, exhausted, despairing.