stummick

Noun

stomach (countable and uncountable, plural stomachs)

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.2012 September 26, Jacque Wilson, “Experts: Alcohol enemas ‘extremely dangerous’”, in CNN
2. (informal) The belly.
   • Why did you hit me in the stomach?

   Synonyms:

   belly, abdomen, tummy, bouk, gut, guts, maw

3. (obsolete, uncountable) Pride, haughtiness.
   • Sterne was his looke, and full of stomacke vaine, / His portaunce terrible, and stature tall […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
4. (obsolete) An appetite.
   • a good stomach for roast beef
5. (figuratively) A desire, an appetite (for something abstract).
   • I have no stomach for a fight today.
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.1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC

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