stomach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstʌmək/
ipa: /ˈstɐmək/
ipa: /ˈstɐmɪk/
rhymes: -ʌmək
Forms: form: stomachs
form: stomack
Etymology: From Middle English stomak, from Old French estomac, from Latin stomachus, from Ancient Greek στόμαχος (stómakhos), from στόμα (stóma, “mouth”).
Largely displaced native Old English maga, whence Modern English maw.
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 2012 September 26, Jacque Wilson, “Experts: Alcohol enemas ‘extremely dangerous’”, in CNN:
text: A new study suggests people taking popular injected medications for weight loss, including Wegovy, Ozempic, Saxenda and Victoza, may be at higher risk for serious digestive problems such as stomach paralysis, pancreatitis, and bowel obstructions, compared with those taking other types of weight loss medications.
ref: 2023 October 5, Brenda Goodman, “Researchers link popular weight loss drugs to serious digestive problems for ‘hundreds of thousands’ worldwide”, in CNN:
glosses: An organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion.
examples: Why did you hit me in the stomach?
synonyms: word: belly
word: abdomen
word: tummy
word: bouk
word: gut
word: guts
word: maw
glosses: The belly.
examples: text: Sterne was his looke, and full of stomacke vaine, / His portaunce terrible, and stature tall […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: He was a man / Of an unbounded stomach, ever ranking / Himself with princes;
ref: c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act HENRY 8, scene iv], page ii, line 34:
text: This sort of crying[…] proceeding from pride, obstinacy, and stomach, the will, where the fault lies, must be bent.
ref: 1693, [John Locke], “§108”, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Pride, haughtiness.
examples: text: a good stomach for roast beef
text: You come not home because you have no stomach. / You have no stomach, having broke your fast.
ref: c. 1594 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Comedie of Errors”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], line 50:
text: HOST. How say you sir, doo you please to sit downe?
EUMENIDES. Hostes I thanke you, I haue no great stomack.
ref: c. 1590 (date written), G[eorge] P[eele], The Old Wiues Tale. […], London: […] Iohn Danter, for Raph Hancocke, and Iohn Hardie, […], published 1595, →OCLC, [lines 920-922]:
text: If after seven hours' tarrying he shall have no stomach, let him defer his meal, or eat very little at his ordinary time of repast.
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], chapter II, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition ii, section 1, member 2:
glosses: Appetite.
examples: text: I have no stomach for a fight today.
text: That he which hath no ſtomack to this fight, / Let him depart, his Paſport ſhall be made,
ref: 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii], page 86, column 2:
text: 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.
ref: 2020 May 4, Lauren Morris, quoting Charlie Brooker, “Charlie Brooker gives Black Mirror season 6 update”, in Radio Times:
glosses: Desire, appetite (for something abstract).
examples: text: […] 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.
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
glosses: The part of a garment that covers a person's stomach.
Derived terms: an army marches on its stomach
antestomach
cast-iron stomach
forestomach
have butterflies in one's stomach
have eyes bigger than one's stomach
honeycomb stomach
honey stomach
muscular stomach
on a full stomach
on an empty stomach
one's stomach thinks one's throat has been cut
pit of the stomach
rennet stomach
sick to one's stomach
sour stomach
stay-stomach
stomachache
stomach ache
stomach acid
stomach balloon
stomach bug
stomach cancer
stomach-churning
stomach-churningly
stomach crunch
stomacher
stomach flu
stomachful
stomachless
stomachlike
stomach lining
stomach oil
stomach pump
stomach staggers
stomach sweetbread
stomach-turning
stomach-turningly
stomach ulcer
stomach vacuum
stomach worm
stomachy
stummy
the way to a man's heart is through his stomach
tummy
upset stomach
wolf in one's stomach
Related terms: stomachic
stomachal