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well-stomached

well-stomached adjective: somewhat fat.

Adjective

well-stomached (comparative more well-stomached, superlative most well-stomached)

  1. Somewhat fat.
    • Ellison himself began to get well-stomached, and he had a red face, big and sappy, and eyes like a cat [...].1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 16

Forms of well-stomached

comparativemore well-stomached
superlativemost well-stomached

Questions about well-stomached

What does well-stomached mean?
Well-stomached means somewhat fat.
What part of speech is well-stomached?
Well-stomached is an adjective.

Words near well-stomached in the dictionary

  1. well-sinkers
  2. well-smithied
  3. well-spoken
  4. well-stacked
  5. well-stocked
  6. well-stomached
  7. well-tailored
  8. well-tempered
  9. well-tended
  10. well-thewed
  11. well-thought-of

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