[f. BELLY sb. + ACHE, which see for forms.] ‘The colic or pain in the bowels.’ Johnson. Bellyache (-bush, -weed), names given to the Jatropha gossypifolia; bellyache-root = ANGELICA.
1552. Huloet, Disceased with bealye ache, or freatynge in the bealye.
1750. G. Hughes, Barbados, 152. The Belly-Ach. The roots of this shrub are … white, penetrating deep into the earth.
1775. Adair, Amer. Ind., 412. Angelica, or belly-ach-root is one of their physical greens.
1804. Southey, Lett. (1856), I. 268. A supper so hearty, That it gave him a sad belly-ache.
