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BELLYACHER

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining

Synonyms:

bellyacher; complainer; crybaby; grumbler; moaner; sniveller; squawker; whiner

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("bellyacher" is a kind of...):

disagreeable person; unpleasant person (a person who is not pleasant or agreeable)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bellyacher"):

kvetch ((Yiddish) a constant complainer)

Derivation:

bellyache (complain)

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