Belgie

Belg(ian) +‎ -ie

Belgie (plural Belgies)

1. (slang) A Belgian.
   • 1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 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.”

   • 1980, Barbara Hanrahan, The Frangipani Garden, page 11:

     Jim Reed began talking about the Tommies, the Aussies, the Froggies, the Belgies, the Pork and Cheese.

   • 1984, Pamela Haines, The Diamond Waterfall, page 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.

   • 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.

• Biegel, Geibel, Giebel, beigel

From Latin Belgia.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɛlɡɪjɛ]

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• Rhymes: -ɪjɛ
• Hyphenation: Bel‧gie

Belgie f (relational adjective belgický, demonym Belgičan, female demonym Belgičanka)

1. Belgium (a country in Western Europe that has borders with the Netherlands, Germany, Luxembourg and France)

• “Belgie”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “Belgie”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “Belgie”, in Akademický slovník současné češtiny, 2012–2025, slovnikcestiny.cz
• “Belgie”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Belgie

1. misspelling of België