different between bellying vs bellyring

English

Verb

bellying

1. present participle of belly

Adjective

bellying (not comparable)

1. Bulging or billowing.
   • 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, Chapter 9,^[1]

     Did it change into the cry of the wind, plaintive at first, angrily shrill as it freshened, rising to a tearing whistle, sinking to a musical trickle of air from the leech of the bellying sail?

   • 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room, Chapter 12,^[2]

     And the light mounts over the faces of all the tall blind houses, slides through a chink and paints the lustrous bellying crimson curtains […]

   • 1925, Hugh Walpole, Portrait of a Man with Red Hair, Part I, Chapter 6,^[3]

     He looked at the stout bellying occupant of the other chair, his mouth open, his snores reverberant.

   • 1950, Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, Chapter 17,

     As he swept out of the room with a bellying sweep of his gown and a toss of his silver hair, his old heart was beating madly.

Noun

bellying (plural bellyings)

1. A bulging, swelling or billowing shape; the act or state of bulging, swelling or billowing.
   • 1693, Simon de la Loubère, A New Historical Relation of the Kingdom of Siam, translated by A.P., London: Tho. Horne, Part II, Chapter II. Of the Houses of the Siamese, and of their Architecture in Publick Buildings, page 32,^[4]

     But the Principal Ornament of the Pagodes, is to be accompanied, as generally they are, with several Pyramids of Lime and Brick […] Some there are which diminish and grow thick again four or five times in their heighth, so that the Profile of them goes waving: But these Bellyings out are smaller as they are in a higher part of the Pyramid.

   • 1873, Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Sunset,” Diary entry dated 3 November, 1873, in The Dublin Review, July, August, September, 1920, p. 64,^[5]

     A few minutes later the brightness over; one great dull rope coiling overhead sidelong from the sunset, its dewlaps and bellyings painted with a maddery campion-colour that seemed to stoop and drop like sopped cake;

   • 1898, H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, Book One, Chapter 15,^[6]

     One may picture, too, the sudden shifting of the attention, the swiftly spreading coils and bellyings of that blackness advancing headlong, towering heavenward, turning the twilight to a palpable darkness […]

   • 1926, Violet Hunt, The Flurried Years, London: Hurst & Blackett, “1910-11,” p. 161,^[7]

     The room into which I was ushered, with its leering volutes and hideous bellyings of brown mahogany, intimately reminded me of a Beardsley drawing.

Synonyms

• bulge
• convexity
• gibbosity
• protrusion
• protuberance

English

Noun

bellyring (plural bellyrings)

1. Alternative form of belly ring
   • 2003, Lorrayne Anthony, "Sexualized images of children mainstream", The Guelph Mercury, 27 January 2003:

     A trip to almost any drug store in Canada will reveal hyper-bright packaging of lipglosses and fake bellyrings for tweens.

   • 2006, Norm Clarke, "NORM: Less talk, more music means magic", Las Vegas Review-Journal, 9 October 2006:

     Forty-five minutes later, Paris, still wearing the black Bunny ears she put on during her Playboy Club appearance, left with two diamond-studded watches worth about $50,000 each, three Bunny necklaces and a Bunny bellyring.

   • 2008, Jill Malone, Red Audrey and the Roping, Bywater Books (2008), ?ISBN, page 14:

     Barefoot, she wore her sarong like a primitive — high on her thigh, low on her waist — her silver bellyring glared at me as she crossed the sidewalk to shake hands.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:bellyring.