belly vs dash

belly

noun
  • The lower fuselage of an airplane. 

  • The stomach. 

  • The main curved portion of a knife blade. 

  • The abdomen, especially a fat one. 

  • The part of anything which resembles (either closely or abstractly) the human belly in protuberance or in concavity; often, the fundus (innermost part). 

  • The womb. 

  • The hollow part of a curved or bent timber, the convex part of which is the back. 

verb
  • To swell and become protuberant; to bulge or billow. 

  • To cause to swell out; to fill. 

  • To position one’s belly; to move on one’s belly. 

dash

noun
  • A short run, flight. 

  • Violent strike; a whack. 

  • The dashboard of a Tumblr user. 

  • A small quantity of a liquid substance etc.; less than 1/8 of a teaspoon. 

  • Any of the following symbols: ‒ (figure dash), – (en dash), — (em dash), or ― (horizontal bar). 

  • A rushing or violent onset. 

  • Ostentatious vigor. 

  • The longer of the two symbols of Morse code. 

  • A slight admixture. 

  • A bribe or gratuity; a gift. 

  • A dashboard. 

  • A hyphen or minus sign. 

verb
  • To leave or depart. 

  • To complete hastily. 

  • To ruin; to destroy. 

  • To dishearten; to sadden. 

  • To sprinkle; to splatter. 

  • To run quickly or for a short distance. 

  • To destroy by striking (against). 

  • To draw or write quickly; jot. 

  • To throw violently. 

intj
  • Damn! 

How often have the words belly and dash occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )