1
as in baby
a person who makes frequent complaints usually about little things
one of the biggest bellyachers about the lousy coffee at work
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2
as in crab
an irritable and complaining person
there's always at least one bellyacher who doesn't like the food on the cruise ship
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Noun
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Des Moines birth centers helped deliver thousands of babies in 2025.—
Cooper Worth,
Des Moines Register,
9 Jan. 2026 -
The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office charged a Santa Monica woman with her baby girl's murder.—
Matthew Rodriguez,
CBS News,
9 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Take, for example, a bowl of artichoke purée poured around a hillock of tender Jonah crab.—
Helen Rosner,
New Yorker,
11 Jan. 2026
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Long before food trucks, enterprising business types began selling devil crab on-the-go from their motor scooters and bicycles equipped with insulated carriers.—
Susan B. Barnes,
Travel + Leisure,
9 Jan. 2026
Noun
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If family needs cause drama, set kind boundaries and explain them to any complainers.—
Tarot.com,
New York Daily News,
2 Jan. 2026
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The faculty experience has been that administrations often side with the complainers.—
Louis Menand,
New Yorker,
26 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The individual, who lives less than half a mile from where a bear stayed under another person’s home for six weeks, did not want to be identified or disclose their exact location.—
Angel Saunders,
PEOPLE,
13 Jan. 2026
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Unfortunately, California’s laws are more like gummy bears than bear traps, barely a slap on the wrist compared to federal and Florida anti-brokering laws that come with the threat of stiff financial penalties and serious prison time.—
Teri Sforza,
Oc Register,
12 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Arriving in period 1920s dress, bowler hat and leather vest in place, Correll prepared to turn the crank on his ’14 Model T, fully aware of how the term chauffeur fracture came to be.—
Paul Sisson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 Jan. 2026
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On Sundays after church, my family would pile into our crank-window GMC truck and head to Kentucky Fried Chicken.—
Annie Joy Williams,
The Atlantic,
4 Jan. 2026
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“Bellyacher.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bellyacher. Accessed 15 Jan. 2026.
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