Definition of bellyfulnext

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Recent Examples of bellyful At dawn, the farmers loaded the trucks with the land’s bellyful of flowers and headed out to sell to the neighboring towns. Literary Hub, 17 Oct. 2025 Go instead for the exquisite acting, the splendiferous set — and a bellyful of laughs. Joanne Engelhardt, The Mercury News, 13 June 2019 The ecologist gets his data and the caiman is none the worse for wear, save for losing a bellyful of rotting flesh. Jason Bittel, Smithsonian, 11 Oct. 2017 On its way to skim the lake and grab a bellyful of water to drop on a nearby forest fire, a CL-215—also known as Scooper—gave him a nice little haircut. Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 15 Aug. 2016
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bellyful
Noun
  • Fulton argued the proposition effectively would limit clinics from accumulating surpluses and reserves.
    Ben Paviour, Sacbee.com, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Companies and families worldwide have surpluses of goods or high-quality items for resale in secondary markets.
    Wayne Elsey, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • In Lois Lowry’s dystopian novel The Giver, a world of human complexity has been flattened deliberately to remove the inconvenient excesses of emotion and feeling.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2026
  • At the exact same time, young, upstart groups like the Ramones and the Clash were forming in response to the corporatization of rock, the bloated egos of its biggest stars, and the excesses of prog with the back-to-basics minimalism of punk.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 18 Sep. 2026

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“Bellyful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bellyful. Accessed 24 Sep. 2026.

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