stomach
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English stomak, from Old French estomac, from Latin stomachus, from Ancient Greek στόμαχος (stómakhos), from στόμα (stóma, “mouth”).
Partially displaced native Old English maga, whence Modern English maw.
Inflected forms:
form: stomachs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: stomack
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: stomachs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: stomaching
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: stomached
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: stomached
pos: verb
tags: past
form: stomack
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: An organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
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.
gloss: The belly.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
examples: Why did you hit me in the stomach?
gloss: Pride, haughtiness.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: An appetite.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: 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.
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.
gloss: A desire, an appetite (for something abstract).
pos: noun
tags: countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: The part of a garment that covers a person's stomach.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: […] 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.
gloss: To tolerate (something), emotionally, physically, or mentally; to stand or handle something.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I really can’t stomach jobs involving that much paperwork, but some people seem to tolerate them.
I can't stomach her cooking.
gloss: To be angry.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: 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?
gloss: To resent; to remember with anger; to dislike.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To turn the stomach of; to sicken or repel.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
Synonyms: put up with
Related words: stomachic
stomachal
Derived words: 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
stomachical
stomachless
stomachlike
stomach lining
stomach oil
stomach pump
stomach staggers
stomach sweetbread
stomach-turning
stomach-turningly
stomach ulcer
stomach vacuum
stomach worm
stomachy
stommy
stummy
the way to a man's heart is through his stomach
tummy
upset stomach
waterfall stomach
wolf in one's stomach
stomachable
unstomachable
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