Green’s Dictionary of Slang

a stomach-ache.

1552		R. Huloet n.p.: Diceased with bealye ache, or frealynge in the bealye .
1587		A. Boorde Breviary of Health n.p.: In latin it is named Ventralis passio. In English it is named the belly ache, or a passion in the belly.
1599		H. Buttes Dyets dry dinner n.p.: Melons [...] Hurt. Bréede winde and belly-ache: naught for collick, splenticke, aged, phlegmaticke, melancholicke.
1613		J. Florio [trans.] Montaigne’s Essays 335: [P]aine [...] doth so often confound and re-enverse all these goodly Stoicall resolutions, and enforceth to cry out of the belly-ache him, who hath with all resolution established in his minde this Doctrine, that [...] sicknesse or paine, is a thing indifferent.
1634		P. Holland [trans.] Pliny Naturalis historia 188: [A] twig of Tamarisk slipped or broken from the plant, so as it touched neither the ground, nor any yron toole, assuageth all belly ache.
1651		T. Brugis Vade mecum 60: The Oyle of Elder [...] provoketh stools, healeth the yellow-jaundise, amendeth belly-ache, and easeth the pains thereof.
1682		T. Tryon Healths grand preservative 8: Drinking of [...] Fiery Spiritual Drinks in all [and] the Common eating of Salt-Fish and Flesh [...] do thereby become very obnoxious to the dry Belly-Ache, or Griping of the Guts, Dropsies and the Gout.
1699		J. Dickinson Gods protecting providence n.p.: [H]having been taken very ill or the belly ache and Flux [...] of which he never recovered,.
1707		Cibber Double Gallant III i: The Brute put it into his own Tramontane Language, and call’d it the Belly-Ach.
1791		Bath Chron. 23 June 4/3: [advert] Mr Rymer’s Cardiac and Nervous Tincture, for [...] the dry belly-ache, for billious sickness.
1804		Southey letter to Miss Barker 3 Mar. Letters (1856) I 268: A supper so hearty that it gave him a sad belly-ache .
1849		Sam Sly 3 Feb. 4/2: They sais Mister Sli as yew takes the part of poor childering, so i thort i'd tell yew wat gid we orfans the bellyake.
1882		Watchman & Southron (Sumter, SC) 3 Jan. 4/7: [advert] Rose Cordial for the cure of [...] Belly Ache.
1901		Broad Ax (Salt Lake City, UT) 18 May 3/4: Some people call it colic but most honest, plain-spoken people call it ‘belly-ache’.
1912		R. Service ‘The Wanderlust’ in Rhymes of a Rolling Stone 124: The Wanderlust has got me . . . by the belly-aching fire, / By the fever and the freezing and the pain.
1916		N. Douglas London Street Games 91: Mother made a seedy cake, / Gave us all the belly ache.
1924		P. Marks Plastic Age 302: ‘They were very indigestible,’ he said quickly. ‘Good! [...] I wanted them to give you a belly-ache.’.
1966		C. Himes Run Man Run (1969) 109: What you got for a bellyache, Junior?