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Midriff   Listen
noun
Midriff  n.  (Anat.)
1.
See Diaphragm, n., 2.
2.
The middle part of the front of the body, from the waist to the chest. "Smote him into the midriff with a stone."
3.
That part of a garment, especially a dress or bodice, that covers the midriff (2).






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"Midriff" Quotes from Famous Books



... quashed and bebumped, that, with a sound bounce under the hollow of their short ribs, he overturned their stomachs so that they died immediately. To some, with a smart souse on the epigaster, he would make their midriff swag, then, redoubling the blow, gave them such a homepush on the navel that he made their puddings to gush out. To others through their ballocks he pierced their bumgut, and left not bowel, tripe, nor entrail in their body that had not felt the impetuosity, fierceness, and ...
— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. • Francois Rabelais

... their fat, with incense strowed, On the cleft wood, and all due rights performed: His offering soon propitious fire from Heaven Consumed with nimble glance, and grateful steam; The other's not, for his was not sincere; Whereat he inly raged, and, as they talked, Smote him into the midriff with a stone That beat out life; he fell; and, deadly pale, Groaned out his soul with gushing blood effused. Much at that sight was Adam in his heart Dismayed, and thus in haste to the Angel cried. O Teacher, some great mischief hath befallen To that meek man, who well had sacrificed; Is ...
— Paradise Lost • John Milton

... the surprise attack, the man's fist cracked against his cheekbone. Tom, though stunned, lashed out. More punches flew back and forth. Tom landed a stinging blow to his opponent's midriff, then took ...
— Tom Swift and The Visitor from Planet X • Victor Appleton



Words linked to "Midriff" :   body, midsection, musculature, diaphragm, middle, muscular structure, anatomy, tissue layer, membrane, region, area, general anatomy, torso



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