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your gut's dramatic monologue, equally fluent in bad burritos and existential dread.
means A pain in the stomach or abdomen — or, used figuratively, a whining complaint about something.
from A plain old English compound, stitched together from "belly" and "ache." "Belly" comes from Old English "belg," meaning a bag, pouch, or bellows — the same root that gives us "bellows" for the squeezable air-bag by the fire — while "ache" descends from Old English "acan," to hurt. So a bellyache is literally a hurting bag. The figurative sense — to grumble and grouse — came later, on the homely logic that constant complaining is just noise made by a sore gut.
- second brain
- the gut houses 100 million neurons, no skull required
- verb too
- means to complain, because whiners and stomachs both cramp
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- anxiety literally rattles your intestines via the vagus nerve
- old word
- english has said bellyache since the 1500s
- gut feeling
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