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side stitch

side stitch is the alternative form of sideache.

Meaning of sideache

Noun

sideache (plural sideaches)

  1. A pain in one's side.
    • I stopped at the drugstore for the ice cream the twins wanted and when we got back to Otter Hill, we found the women in throes of anxiety over Mickey, who had suddenly come down with a violent sideache.1945, Ambrose Flack, Family on the Hill, page 125

Forms of side stitch

pluralside stitches

Questions about side stitch

What is side stitch the alternative form of?
Side stitch is the alternative form of sideache.

Words near side stitch in the dictionary

  1. side scrollers
  2. side shot
  3. side shots
  4. side show
  5. side shows
  6. side stitch
  7. side street
  8. side streets
  9. side surf
  10. side swimmer
  11. side swimmers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: side stitch (page history and authors); sideache (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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