bellyload of
- noun
- Informal
:
un montón de comida
- After the feast, everyone had eaten a bellyload of food and could barely move.
Examples
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She claimed she could easily handle a bellyload of spicy wings at the contest.
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He managed to finish a bellyload of pancakes before noon.
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He ate a bellyload of pasta last night.
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After the feast, she felt like she had a bellyload of food.
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After the feast, everyone had eaten a bellyload of food and could barely move.
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He managed to finish a bellyload of pancakes before noon.
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She claimed she could easily handle a bellyload of spicy wings at the contest.
Synonyms
5
8.5
A very large amount of something said jokingly
1
4.4
A large amount of food that fills the stomach or is more than enough
1
5.7
An amount of food or drink that fills your belly completely
Antonyms
How Filling
Surface Forms
Morphology
bellyload + of
The sense 'an amount of food enough to fill one's stomach' is directly derivable from the constituents: 'belly' (stomach) + 'load' (a large quantity) with the preposition 'of' linking to the food. Although 'bellyload' itself is rare, the compositional logic (stomach + load = quantity that fills the stomach) is transparent and follows common, cross-linguistic patterns, so a B1 learner who knows the parts would readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Bellyload of comes from a simple picture: your belly is like a bag and the load is the food packed inside. So, when someone says they ate a bellyload of food, they mean they 'filled their stomach' or ate 'a very large amount of food'.