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What does "stomach" mean?

Stomach: The desire for food caused by hunger; appetite; as, a good stomach for roast beef. Shak.

Additional senses

  1. 2.Hence appetite in general; inclination; desire. He which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him depart. Shak.
  2. 3.Violence of temper; anger; sullenness; resentment; willful obstinacy; stubbornness. [Obs.] Stern was his look, and full of stomach vain. Spenser. This sort of crying proceeding from pride, obstinacy, and stomach, the will, where the fault lies, must be bent. Locke.
  3. 4.Pride; haughtiness; arrogance. [Obs.] He was a man Of an unbounded stomach. Shak. Stomach pump (Med.), a small pump or syringe with a flexible tube, for drawing liquids from the stomach, or for injecting them into it. -- Stomach tube (Med.), a long flexible tube for introduction into the stomach. -- Stomach worm (Zoöl.), the common roundworm (Ascaris lumbricoides) found in the human intestine, and rarely in the stomach.
  4. 5.To resent; to remember with anger; to dislike. Shak. The lion began to show his teeth, and to stomach the affront. L'Estrange. The Parliament sit in that body . . . to be his counselors and dictators, though he stomach it. Milton.
  5. 6.To bear without repugnance; to brook. [Colloq.]
  6. 7.To be angry. [Obs.] Hooker.

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