Telly vs. Belly

Telly vs. Belly — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Telly and Belly

Tellynoun

(colloquial) Television.

Not much on telly tonight, as usual!

Bellynoun

The abdomen, especially a fat one.

Tellynoun

(colloquial) A television set.

We've got a new flat-screen telly.

Bellynoun

The stomach.

Tellynoun

A hotel or motel.

I'm staying at the telly this weekend.

Bellynoun

The womb.

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Tellynoun

a receiver that displays television images;

the British call a tv set a telly

Bellynoun

The lower fuselage of an airplane.

Bellynoun

The part of anything which resembles the human belly in protuberance or in cavity; the innermost part.

the belly of a flask, muscle, violin, sail, or ship

Bellynoun

(architecture) The hollow part of a curved or bent timber, the convex part of which is the back.

Bellyverb

To position one’s belly; to move on one’s belly.

Bellyverb

(intransitive) To swell and become protuberant; to bulge or billow.

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Bellyverb

(transitive) To cause to swell out; to fill.

Bellynoun

the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis

Bellynoun

a protruding abdomen

Bellynoun

a part that bulges deeply;

the belly of a sail

Bellynoun

the hollow inside of something;

in the belly of the ship

Bellynoun

the underpart of the body of certain vertebrates such as snakes or fish

Bellyverb

swell out or bulge out