Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Full of stomach or wilfulness; proud; spirited; wilful; perverse; stubborn; sturdy.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Willfully obstinate; stubborn; perverse.

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  • noun As much as one can stomach

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Examples

  • He had no intention of spending his first full day back on a stomachful ofleola -root surprise.

    String Theory, Book 3: Evolution Heather Jarman 2006

  • GRACE: You know, I don't think anyone has considered the fact that maybe Marina Ein just had a stomachful of the whole kit and caboodle.

    CNN Transcript Aug 31, 2001 2001

  • And all I'd get out of it was a free ride home and a stomachful of adrenalin, what the hell was London doing, I didn't want the bloody Guards called out, I just wanted a boat, for Christ's sake, and I wanted it now.

    The Mandarin Cypher Hall, Adam 1975

  • Staying at the Chelsea Hotel was a gifted and powerfully attractive musician named Toby Ben, who had an undigestible stomachful watching the scene during those August days.

    Buried Alive, The Biography of Janis Joplin Friedman, Myra 1973

  • This awakening was no different from most of the others: two damnable pains, one inside and one outside my skull, a stomachful of nausea, and a dread of what lay ahead.

    Royal Flash Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1970

  • Pop-up large image fearful, that they will be stomachful at Home and angry and resentful.

    John Adams diary 11, 18 - 29 December 1765 1961

  • And Andros, knowing himself to be helpless, yielded, though not without some "stomachful reluctances."

    This Country of Ours: The Story of the United States Henrietta Elizabeth 1917

  • "Here's hoping that you learn how to jump like Lightfoot the Deer, and that I get a stomachful of fat beetles."

    Mother West Wind "How" Stories Harrison Cady 1919

  • Nothing less than a stomachful would allay the gnawing craving of that great emptiness.

    Jungle Tales of Tarzan 1919

  • The obstinate or stomachful crying should by no means be permitted, because it is but another way of flattering their desires, and encouraging those passions which ’tis our main business to subdue: and if it be, as often it is, upon the receiving any correction, it quite defeats all the good effects of it; for any chastisement which leaves them in this declar’d opposition, only serves to make them worse.

    Some Thoughts Concerning Education. Sections 111-120 1909

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