bellyache

Related to bellyache: stomach ache

bellyache

1. verb To complain or gripe about someone or something. Of course Marjorie is bellyaching about how I left dishes out in the kitchen—she's not happy unless everything is perfectly put away.
2. noun Pain in one's stomach. I've had a bellyache all day, so I'm going to have to cancel our dinner plans.

quit (one's) bellyaching

To stop griping or complaining. Often said as an order. A: "But I don't like broccoli!" B: "Just quit your bellyaching and eat it!" If the kids don't quit their bellyaching soon, I'm going to turn this car around and take us right back home.
See also: bellyache, quit
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

bellyache

(ˈbɛli ek)
1. n. a stomachache. Oh, mama, do I have a bellyache!
2. in. to complain. You are always bellyaching!

Quit your bellyaching!

imperative Stop complaining! You’ve been bitching all day! Quit your bellyaching!
See also: quit
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • beef about
  • beef about (someone or something)
  • beef about someone/something
  • bitching
  • grumble at
  • grumble at (someone)
  • dog
  • dogg
References in periodicals archive
Most bellyaches can be safely managed at home, but every once in a while there's a serious emergency brewing.
Ryder's struggle with drugs led to the break up of the Happy Mondays in 1992 - after the release of their classic albums Bummed and Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches.
Happy Mondays: Pills 'n' Thrille and Bellyaches 25th Anniversary Tour, November 14, Newcastle o2 Academy, 0844 477 2000 or www.
It was a different story 25 years ago when Pills 'n' Thrills And Bellyaches first came out on November 27, 1990.
Pills 'n' Thrills And Bellyaches was the album that put Happy Mondays on Top Of The Pops and it spent 31 weeks on the UK album charts.
RAve AVEA scene pioneers The Happy Mondays have confirmed an 18-night UK tour - which will include a visit to Liverpool - celebrating the 25th anniversary of their iconic album Pills 'n'Thrills and Bellyaches.
Sometimes, sea turtles get injured by boats or they get bellyaches after eating trash that people threw into the ocean.
The Happy Mondays rose to fame in the Eighties in the Manchester rave scene and released classic albums such as Pills, Thrills and Bellyaches, with hits Kinky Afro and Step On.
After informing the audience of his physical well-being (rhymes with Donald Ducked) he launched into Loose Fit from Thrills Pills & Bellyaches.
Featuring some excellent set pieces (including a roof-top pigeon culling and a discussion about 007 producer Chubby Broccoli) and a cracking soundtrack, it is, as the Happy Mondays put it, thrills, pills and bellyaches...
Surgeons who complained that their salaries were not similar to their community peers needed only be reminded that the group's primary care doctors saw 50 bellyaches and heartburn cases before that one cholescytectomy was "presented" to the surgeon.
It marks more than 30 years since their debut album, but it was their breakthrough Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches in 1990 that caught mainstream attention.
Happy Mondays' singer Shaun Ryder had more than his fair share of Pills, Thrills and Bellyaches, to quote the band's best album, as a 24 hour party man.
1990 album Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches went platinum in the UK, selling more than 350,000 copies putting the band firmly on the map as one of the most influential to come out of the UK in the early 90s.
McCarthy works tirelessly but she bellyaches and gripes, without any urge to remedy her dire situation.