Belly

belly is a good word now almost done to death by GENTEELISM. It
lingers in proverbs & phrases, but even they are being amended into up-to-date delicacy, & the road to the heart lies less often through the b. than through the stomach or the tummy. The slaying of the slayer now in course of performance by tummy illustrates the vanity of genteel efforts; a perpetual succession of names, often ending in nursery ineptitudes (smock, shift, chemise, shimmy), must be contrived. Stomach for belly is a specially bad case, because the meaning of stomach has to be changed before it can take the place of b. in many contexts. The tendency, however, is perhaps irresistible.