bellyful
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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
My head came up and I spit out a bellyful of water and took a couple of good, deep breaths.
From "The Watsons Go to Birmingham" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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We donnot want dainties, we want bellyfuls; we donnot want gimcrack coats and waistcoats, we want warm clothes; and so that we get 'em, we'd not quarrel wi' what they're made on.
From Mary Barton by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
They should ha' had the best o' schooling, and their bellyfuls o' food.
From Mary Barton by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
I sing hay-ree, that is, hay and rye; meaning that they shall have hay and rye, their bellyfuls, if they will draw hard.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by Hazlitt, William Carew
All very fine," he said, "to wag your ears and parley, And pretend you quite despise my bellyfuls of barley!
From The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 by MacDonald, George
Ay, pipe away there," said the infamous Lag, "and scream and howl your bellyfuls; but it will be long ere such music will reach the ear or soften the heart of my Lord Lauderdale.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 16 by Various