bellywark

== English == === Alternative forms === belly-wark, bellywaak, belly-waak (East Yorkshire), bellywahk, belly-wahk (East Yorkshire), bellywarch, belly-warch, bally-warche (Cheshire, Staffordshire), bellywartch, bally-wartch, belly-wartch (Lancashire), bellywerch, belly-werch (Lancashire), bellywork, belly-work (Cumbria, Lincolnshire) === Etymology === From belly +‎ wark (“pain”). === Noun === bellywark (countable and uncountable, plural bellywarks) (Midlands and Northern England) A pain in the stomach; bellyache; colic; gripe. For more quotations using this term, see Citations:bellywark. (Yorkshire, games) A shot in marbles made with the taw held against the belly. === References === Wright, Joseph (1898), The English Dialect Dictionary‎[2], volume 1, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 238