"bellybutton" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: bellybuttons [plural]
Etymology: From belly + button. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|belly|button}} belly + button Head templates: {{en-noun}} bellybutton (plural bellybuttons)
  1. (informal) The navel or umbilicus. Tags: informal Synonyms: belly button
    Sense id: en-bellybutton-en-noun-ha0MzSwq Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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      "args": {
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      },
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      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From belly + button.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bellybuttons",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "bellybutton (plural bellybuttons)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
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  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
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          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1909, The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal:",
          "text": "Always used to have pain about navel when a boy (used to call it bellybutton ache)[…]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The navel or umbilicus."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "navel",
          "navel"
        ],
        [
          "umbilicus",
          "umbilicus"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) The navel or umbilicus."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "belly button"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bellybutton"
}
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  "etymology_templates": [
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      "args": {
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        "3": "button"
      },
      "expansion": "belly + button",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From belly + button.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bellybuttons",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "bellybutton (plural bellybuttons)",
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    }
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  "senses": [
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        "English compound terms",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English informal terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1909, The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal:",
          "text": "Always used to have pain about navel when a boy (used to call it bellybutton ache)[…]",
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        }
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        "The navel or umbilicus."
      ],
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        [
          "navel",
          "navel"
        ],
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          "umbilicus"
        ]
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        "(informal) The navel or umbilicus."
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    {
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    }
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}

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