bellyful
Americannoun
noun
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as much as one wants or can eat
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slang more than one can tolerate
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As Celtic lifted the trophy, most Rangers fans had already exited, presumably having had a bellyful of disappointment for one day.
From BBC • Dec. 15, 2024
The apex of that transformation arrived with the N.F.L. planting this year’s event in Las Vegas, where the prevailing ethos might well be that a bellyful of anything is barely enough.
From New York Times • Feb. 12, 2024
With a powerful radar that rotates six times every minute on the fuselage and a bellyful of surveillance gear, the plane can spot missile launches, airborne bombing runs and other military activity in the conflict.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 15, 2024
Transported through technology, she is racing down an aisle at the International Spy Museum in D.C., toward a clear glass case that holds a model of a white-haired rodent with a bellyful of money.
From Washington Post • May 14, 2021
"Our great Hippocrates, the father of medicine, says that a bellyful is bad, and if it is a bellyful of partridges, it is worse."
From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios
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