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"belly" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often stomach (7 letters).
Definitions
swell out or bulge out
Word origin
Inherited from Middle English bely, beli, bali, below, belew, balyw, from Old English bielġ (“bag, pouch, bulge”), from Proto-West Germanic *balgi, *balgu, from Proto-Germanic *balgiz, *balguz (“skin, hide, bellows, bag”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵʰ- (“to swell, blow up”). Cognate with Dutch balg, German Balg, Danish bælg, Old Irish bolg, Welsh bol. Doublet of bellows, blague, bulge, and budge. See also bellows.
Used in a sentence
“You've grown a belly over Christmas! Time to join the gym again.”
“My belly was full of wine.”
“Before I formed thee in the bellie, I knew thee; […]”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Abdomen”5 letters
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