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- noun Plural form of
bellyful .
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Examples
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Beat-al-mal, or charity fund, is intended to afford mouthfuls to the poor, and not bellyfuls to the imps of the devil.
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The scenery, according to their standards, was delightful — the sky grey and black, bellyfuls of rain all over it, the earth pocked with pools of water and slimy with mud.
A Passage To India Forster, E. M. 1924
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And pretend you quite despise my bellyfuls of barley!
The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 George MacDonald 1864
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Joining the Laysan albatross as icons of ocean plastic pollution are sea turtles, which consume bellyfuls of debris while swimming through Earth's five great ocean garbage patches.
Wired Top Stories Brandon Keim 2011
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"'Yes,' said I." Then I felt a hundred sharp claws which tore my diaphragm as if the beaks of a thousand birds there took their bellyfuls, shrieking.
Droll Stories — Volume 2 Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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"'Yes,' said I." Then I felt a hundred sharp claws which tore my diaphragm as if the beaks of a thousand birds there took their bellyfuls, shrieking.
Droll Stories — Complete Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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