midriff

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the front of the body between the chest and the waist

   The dancer's costume left her midriff bare.

Simplified etymology

Midriff is an Old English word whose second element, hrif, meant “belly.” Hrif ultimately shares a root with Latin corpus, “body.”

From Old English midhrif, from midd 'middle' + hrif 'belly, womb', the latter from Proto-Germanic *hrefiz, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷrep- 'body, form'.

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