Antonyms for belly up


Grammar : Adj, verb
Spell : bel-ee
Phonetic Transcription : ˈbɛl i


Definition of belly up

Origin :
  • "to swell out," 1620s, from belly (n.). Related: Bellied; bellying. Old English belgan meant "to be or become angry" (a figurative sense). A comparable Greek verb-from-noun, gastrizein, meant "to hit (someone) in the belly."
  • As in kaput : adj ruined, wrecked
  • As in collapse : verb fall apart, break down
Example sentences :
  • Still, one fine day they'll slit his belly up, by God they will!
  • Extract from : « Pelle the Conqueror, Complete » by Martin Anderson Nexo
  • But at length she floated to the surface, unconscious, her belly up, as if dead.
  • Extract from : « American Hero-Myths » by Daniel G. Brinton
  • A slip would have sent them, belly up, down the toboggan-slide, with a drop into an unknown depth at the end.
  • Extract from : « Pony Tracks » by Frederic Remington
  • A large fish floated on the water, belly up; fish washed ashore are used by the people as medicine.
  • Extract from : « Trans-Himalaya, Vol. 2 (of 2) » by Sven Hedin
  • The gull flapped his wings violently once or twice, then turned over and floated away, belly up, quite dead.
  • Extract from : « The Land's End » by W. H. Hudson
  • The piano in Bezuquet's shop mouldered away under a green fungus, and the Spanish flies dried upon it, belly up.
  • Extract from : « Tartarin of Tarascon » by Alphonse Daudet
  • Fill the other part with a plum-pudding; sew the belly up, and bake it.
  • Extract from : « The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory; » by Charlotte Campbell Bury
  • This time Bill did not aim so much below and when he fired the fish came to the surface, belly up.
  • Extract from : « Bill Bruce on Forest Patrol » by Henry Harley Arnold
  • He started crawling on his belly up out of the draw to the crest of the hog's back.
  • Extract from : « The Pride of Palomar » by Peter B. Kyne
  • "Your ponies floated, belly up, down the river moons ago," said Matthews.
  • Extract from : « The Plow-Woman » by Eleanor Gates

Synonyms for belly up

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