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English
- belly-wark, bellywaak, belly-waak (East Yorkshire), bellywahk, belly-wahk (East Yorkshire), bellywarch, belly-warch, bally-warche (Cheshire, Staffordshire), bellywartch, bally-wartch, belly-wartch (Lancashire), bellywerch, belly-werch (Lancashire), bellywork, belly-work (Cumbria, Lincolnshire)
Etymology
From belly + wark (“pain”).
Noun
bellywark (countable and uncountable, plural bellywarks)
- (Midlands and Northern England) A pain in the stomach; bellyache; colic; gripe.
1869, A. Lodge, Forty Years Ago, page 22:"Nay, nay," replied Charley, "I'm noen soea weel this morning, I've had th' bellywark vary bad, an' I'm feared it 'ell start again if I knock abaet, I'd rather ne quiet."
2011 December 7, Richard, “Re: Cafe Giardino”, in Hastings Forum:wish I could eat the darn stuff - gives me bellywarks !!
2013, Greer Gilman, Cloud & Ashes, →ISBN, page 173:"Cuddy's getten bellywark. Green imbers, he's etten."
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:bellywark.
- (Yorkshire, games) A shot in marbles made with the taw held against the belly.
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