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▪ I. stomachful, n.|ˈstʌməkfʊl| [f. stomach n. + -ful2.] As much as will fill one's stomach.
1865G. Macdonald Alec Forbes II. xxv. 238 Ye'll be laid up yersel' gin ye dinna get a stammachfu' o' the caller air noo and than. 1891Herman His Angel viii. 179, I guess you've had your stomachful of the law. ▪ II. † ˈstomachful, a. Obs. [f. stomach n. + -ful1.] Full of ‘stomach’ (stomach n. 8). 1. Obstinate, self-willed. (Often said of horses; also of children.)
1600Surflet Country Farm i. xxiii. 130 If he [the ox] be stomackfull,..cause him to smell your hande oftentimes, that so hee may be acquainted with you. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 623 A very shrewd, stout, and malapert stomackfull woman. 1633T. Adams Exp. 2 Peter ii. 12. 835 A stomackfull horse, that will not be stopp'd in his carrier with the sharpest bit. 1643T. Goodwin Trial Chr. Growth 154 Like a stomachfull boy, that cryes he cannot have the victory, yet is weak, and easily laid on his back. 1676Marvell Mr. Smirke 61 (bis) But the few sincere or stomachful Bishops..expiated so in some measure, what they had committed in the Nicene Council. 1690Locke Educ. §112 The obstinate or stomachful crying [of children] should by no means be permitted. 1710M. Henry Expos. O. & N.T. (1725) III. 522/2 A stomachful high-spirited Child must be subdued betimes. 1778Foote Trip to Calais ii. Wks. 1799 II. 361 You sullen, sulking, stomachful slut! 1797A. M. Bennett Beggar Girl (1813) V. 38, I suppose you was too stomachful to wait on her after the gentle⁓man died. 1828Carr Craven Gloss., Stomach-full, proud, obstinate. 2. Resentful, angry, malignant.
1610Bp. Hall Apol. agst. Brownists Ep. Ded. 2 From the other, I receiued..a stomakful Pamphlet. 1625Purchas Pilgrims II. 1216 Thomas Becket was slaine in his Church at Canterburie..by..Courtiers..which had heard some stomackfull speeches of the King, touching the said Arch⁓bishop. 1765J. Adams Diary 29 Dec., Wks. 1850 II. 169 Major Miller, forsooth, is very fearful that they will be stomachful at home, and angry and resentful. 3. Spirited, courageous.
1610J. Guillim Heraldry iii. xiv. (1660) 172 The Males are more stomachfull, and of greater courage than the Females. 1658tr. Porta's Nat. Magick ii. vi. 37 We see, how to generate a dog as stomackful as a Lion. 1676Wycherley Pl. Dealer iii. i. (1677) 39 Nay, but if I had but any Body to stand by me, I am as stomachful as another. 1809W. Irving Knickerb. v. viii. (1861) 173 In the interim the stomachful heroes of Pyquag would have been choked with their own onions. Hence † ˈstomachfully adv.; † ˈstomachfulness.
1611Cotgr., Ireusement, irefully, wrathfully, stomacke⁓fully. 1614Bp. Hall Contempl. v. Gold. Calf 117 While so many thousand Israelites were slaine, that had stomach⁓fully desired the Idoll. 1621T. Granger Eccles. ix. 17. 248 Pride, stomachfulnesse, headinesse,..auaile little. 1664–5Pepys Diary 28 Feb., I..did give her very provoking words,..which she took very stomachfully, and reproached me justly with mine. 1682Bunyan Holy War (1905) 302, I have often heard him say, and that with great stomachfulness, that he believed that there was neither God, Angel, nor Spirit. 1747Richardson Clarissa (1749) II. 113 Only this Miss, That your stomachfulness had swallowed up your stomach. 1755Johnson, Chuffily, surlily, stomachfully. |