stomach

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   An organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion.

   • Our stomachs and livers have an enzyme known as alcohol dehydrogenase that breaks down ethanol to make it less toxic for our bodies, said Atlanta gastroenterologist Dr. Preston Stewart.
2. 2

   The belly.

   • Why did you hit me in the stomach?
3. 3

   Pride, haughtiness.

   • Sterne was his looke, and full of stomacke vaine, / His portaunce terrible, and stature tall […]
   • He was a man / Of an unbounded stomach, ever ranking / Himself with princes;
   • This sort of crying[…] proceeding from pride, obstinacy, and stomach, the will, where the fault lies, must be bent.
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   1. 4

      An appetite.

      • a good stomach for roast beef
      • You come not home because you have no stomach. / You have no stomach, having broke your fast.
      • HOST. How say you sir, doo you please to sit downe? EUMENIDES. Hostes I thanke you, I haue no great stomack.
   2. 5

      A desire, an appetite (for something abstract).

      • I have no stomach for a fight today.
      • That he which hath no ſtomack to this fight, / Let him depart, his Paſport ſhall be made,
      • At the moment, I don’t know what stomach there would be for stories about societies falling apart, so I’m not working away on one of those.
   3. 6

      The part of a garment that covers a person's stomach.

      • […] Mr. Sedley looking grand, with a crush opera-hat on one side of his head and his hand in the stomach of a voluminous white waistcoat.
   4. 7

      To tolerate (something), emotionally, physically, or mentally

      To tolerate (something), emotionally, physically, or mentally; to stand or handle something.

      • I really can’t stomach jobs involving that much paperwork, but some people seem to tolerate them.
      • I can't stomach her cooking.
   5. 8

      To be angry.

      • Let a man, though never so justly, oppose himself unto them that are disordered in their ways; and what one amongst them commonly doth not stomach at such contradiction, storm at reproof, and hate such as would reform them?
   6. 9

      To resent

      To resent; to remember with anger; to dislike.

      • O, my good lord, / Believe not all; or, if you must believe, / Stomach not all.
      • The Lion began at first to shew his Teeth, and to Stomach the Affront.
      • The Parliament sit in that body […] to be his counsellors and dictators, though he stomach it.
   7. 10

      To turn the stomach of

      To turn the stomach of; to sicken or repel.

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