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Belgie
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België
English
Etymology
en :af Belgian<alt:Belg(ian)> -ie<id:diminutive> + 1
Noun
en slang A Belgian.
en 1920 Agatha Christie Agatha Christie The Mysterious Affair at Styles Pan Books London 1954 114 “I don’t hold with foreigners as a rule, but from what the newspapers say I make out as how these brave Belgies isn’t the ordinary run of foreigners, and certainly he’s a most polite spoken gentleman.”
en 1980 Barbara Hanrahan The Frangipani Garden 11 Jim Reed began talking about the Tommies, the Aussies, the Froggies, the Belgies, the Pork and Cheese.
en 1984 Pamela Haines The Diamond Waterfall 353 Money's coming through any day from the Belgies — it's all in order, paper work, all that — but we need to put up a bit extra just now. Before it comes through.
en 2014 Leo Kessler SS Panzer Battalion: Wotan's First Mission If you listen carefully, you can hear the Belgies down below in the underground galleries. Hundreds of them there are.
Anagrams
en beegil Biegel Geibel Giebel beigel
Czech
cs:
Etymology
cs :der la:Belgia + 1
Pronunciation
cs Cs-Belgie.ogg
cs ɪjɛ 3
cs Bel gie
Proper noun
f belgický Belgičan Belgičanka
cs Belgium Q31
Declension
f.sg
See also
Further reading
Belgie 0/34779
Dutch
Proper noun
nl misspelling
nl België