to bellyache
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6.8
- verb
- /ˈbɛliˌeɪk/
- Informal
:
quejarse
- They had become accustomed to the press letting them bellyache.
But, you know, I don't think the public really wants to hear us bellyaching.
- But, you know, I don't think the public really wants to hear us bellyaching.
Examples
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I guess I can't bellyache too much.
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Do you want to help find her or would you rather just sit there and bellyache?
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It's annoying when you constantly bellyache about your job instead of looking for solutions.
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If you want to bellyache, at least do it privately instead of bothering everyone around you.
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She tends to bellyache about the weather every time it rains, making everyone else miserable.
Synonyms
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8.1
To complain a lot in an annoying way
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2.8
To complain in a high, annoying voice
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1.6
To make a low deep sound to show pain, discomfort or dislike
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1.0
To make a low, long sound to show pain, discomfort, or displeasure
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8.4
To complain in an angry way about something
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5.6
To complain repeatedly about small things
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6.6
To keep complaining about something in a way that annoys people
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6.7
Talk again and again about the same thing and annoy people
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8.0
To complain loudly about something you think is unfair
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2.6
To keep criticizing or telling someone to do things in an annoying way
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9.6
To complain a lot in an annoying way
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7.4
To complain about small unimportant things
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6.0
To complain loudly in a way that annoys other people
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4.1
To complain quietly about something you do not like
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8.1
To complain in an annoying way about small things
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9.9
To complain a lot about small things and annoy others
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4.1
Make a low sound or complain to show you are annoyed at something
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6.4
To complain in a bad-tempered way
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7.3
To complain in a small, repeated way
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8.7
Complain a lot in a dramatic way about something that upsets you
To complain quietly because you are unhappy
To complain in a sulky, childish way about small things
To feel so annoyed or frustrated that you make a soft unhappy sound
Antonyms
How Complaining
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Bellyache as a verb grew from the noun: people would say they had a bellyache to show they were unhappy, so the word came to mean 'to complain'. That's why to bellyache today is to complain, often in an annoying or repeated way.