stay-stomach

noun

Etymology

1800. From stay + stomach.

  1. derived from στόμαχος
  2. derived from stomachus
  3. derived from estomac
  4. inherited from stomak
  5. compounded as stay-stomach — “stay + stomach

Definitions

  1. A snack.

    • I reckon that old fellow, your husband, aint brung in your breckkus yet ; so you must be mighty hungry by this time, and there’s no better stay-stomach in the worl than hard biled eggs.
    • But there were others in the thirteenth century, quoted in the Summa Summarum of Sylvester Prieras, who said that a man might take electuaries, or ginger by way of stay-stomach, without impeding Communion.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for stay-stomach. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA