belly button

[bel-ee-buht-n] Origin

bel·ly·but·ton

[bel-ee-buht-n]
noun Informal.
the navel.
Also, belly button.


Origin:
1875–80, Americanism; belly + button
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Belly button is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
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Word Origin & History

belly button
"navel," 1877, colloquial, from belly + button. Also bellybutton, belly-button.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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belly button definition


  1. n.
    the navel. : Is your belly button an insy or an outsy?
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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belly button

in anatomy, a small depression in the abdominal wall at the point of attachment of the umbilical cord (q.v.). It indicates the point through which the mammalian fetus obtained nourishment from its mother through the blood vessels of the umbilical cord.

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