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midriff

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Noun
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mid=riff

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun midriff has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

midriffn. [AS. midhrif; midd mid, middle + hrif bowels, womb; akin to OFries. midref midriff, rif, ref, belly, OHG. href body, and to L. corpus body. See Corpse.].
  •  See Diaphragm, n., 2.  [1913 Webster]
  •  The middle part of the front of the body, from the waist to the chest.  [PJC]
    "Smote him into the midriff with a stone."  [1913 Webster]
  •  That part of a garment, especially a dress or bodice, that covers the midriff{2}.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

midriff, n.
1 a the region of the front of the body between the thorax and abdomen. b the diaphragm.
2 a garment or part of a garment covering the abdomen.

Etymology
OE midhrif (as MID(1), hrif belly)

THESAURUS

midriff

abdomen, abomasum, barrier, bay window, beerbelly, belly, brattice, breadbasket, buffer, buffer state, bulkhead, bumper, center, cloison, collision mat, core, craw, crop, cushion, diameter, diaphragm, dissepiment, dividing line, dividing wall, division, embonpoint, equator, fender, first stomach, gizzard, gullet, gut, heart, honeycomb stomach, interior, interseptum, kernel, kishkes, manyplies, mat, maw, mean, median, middle, midmost, midsection, midst, nucleus, omasum, pad, panel, paries, partition, party wall, paunch, pot, potbelly, potgut, property line, psalterium, pusgut, rennet bag, reticulum, rumen, second stomach, separation, septulum, septum, shock pad, spare tire, stomach, swagbelly, thick, thick of things, third stomach, tum-tum, tummy, underbelly, ventripotence, waist, waistline, wall, zone

ROGET THESAURUS

midriff

Middle

N middle, midst, mediety, mean, medium, middle term, center &c, mid-course, mezzo termine, juste milieu, halfway house, nave, navel, omphalos, nucleus, nucleolus, equidistance, bisection, half distance, equator, diaphragm, midriff, intermediate, middle, medial, mesial, mean, mid, median, average, middlemost, midmost, mediate, intermediate, equidistant, central, mediterranean, equatorial, homocentric, in the middle, midway, halfway, midships, amidships, in medias res.

Interposition

N interposition, interjacence, intercurrence, intervenience, interlocation, interdigitation, interjection, interpolation, interlineation, interspersion, intercalation, interpenetration, permeation, infiltration, intervention, interference, intrusion, obtrusion, insinuation, insertion, dovetailing, embolism, intermediary, intermedium, go between, bodkin, intruder, interloper, parenthesis, episode, flyleaf, partition, septum, diaphragm, midriff, dissepiment, party wall, panel, room divider, halfway house, interjacent, intercurrent, intervenient, intervening, intermediate, intermediary, intercalary, interstitial, embolismal, parenthetical, episodic, mediterranean, intrusive, embosomed, merged, between, betwixt, twixt, among, amongst, amid, amidst, mid, midst, in the thick of, betwixt and between, sandwich-wise, parenthetically, obiter dictum.

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