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Bellyful   Listen
noun
Bellyful  n.  As much as satisfies the appetite. Hence: A great abundance; more than enough. "King James told his son that he would have his bellyful of parliamentary impeachments."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Bellyful" Quotes from Famous Books



... unity; all; ne plus ultra[Lat], ideal, limit. complement, supplement, make-weight; filling, up &c. v. impletion[obs3]; saturation, saturity|; high water; high tide, flood tide, spring tide; fill, load, bumper, bellyful[obs3]; brimmer[obs3]; sufficiency &c. 639. V. be complete &c. adj.; come to a head. render complete &c. adj.; complete &c. (accomplish) 729; fill, charge, load, replenish; make up, make good; piece out[Fr], ...
— Roget's Thesaurus

... and all the world knows Banagher bangs the divil,—I never met the likes o' you, Paddy,' says he,—'pull away, boys, and put Paddy ashore, and maybe we won't get a good bellyful ...
— Stories of Comedy • Various

... sulphurous and thought-executing fires, Vaunt couriers of oak-cleaving thunder-bolts, Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world! Crack nature's moulds, all germens spill at once That make ungrateful man.... Rumble thy bellyful! Spit fire, ...
— The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and - Modern Times • Alfred Biese

... and said, "It is eight or ten days, brother growler, since I entered upon the government of the island they gave me, and all that time I never had a bellyful of victuals, no not for an hour; doctors persecuted me and enemies crushed my bones; nor had I any opportunity of taking bribes or levying taxes; and if that be the case, as it is, I don't deserve, I think, to come out in this fashion; but 'man proposes and God disposes;' and God ...
— Don Quixote • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra



Words linked to "Bellyful" :   superabundance, overmuchness, overabundance



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