The stomach of an animal or (now British regional or humorous) of a person. Formerly also: spec. †the abomasum or fourth stomach of a ruminant (obs…

The stomach of a person or animal; the human stomach considered as the seat of hunger and satiety or of gluttony. Also: an animal's stomach used…

The belly, the stomach. Cf. bag, n. 13. Obsolete.

transferred and figurative. The stomach or maw; also the throat. Now Scottish and dialect. Cf. gizzard, n.

In singular and plural. Put for the belly or stomach, esp. as the seat of appetite or gluttony. Now dialect and colloquial. gut and ga' (gall) (Sc…

In a human or animal body: The internal pouch or cavity in which food is digested.

That part of the body which receives food; the stomach with its adjuncts.

The stomach of a person or of an animal.

The belly; the womb. Obsolete.

The stomach (chiefly metonymically in phrases). See also next one's heart at phrases 1g heart-pit n. at compounds 3a. Scottish and English regional…

figurative and in figurative contexts. Something likened to a kitchen (sense 1a), esp. in supplying food, nourishment, or energy, in being hot…

The belly, stomach, paunch.

The stomach, esp. that of the ox, etc. (as opposed to that of the sheep), used for culinary purposes.

transferred. The stomach (of a person or animal). humorous or derisive.

The stomach in people or animals. ? Obsolete.

(a) colloquial the stomach or belly (obsolete) (b) a place where offal or pudding is kept, prepared, or sold (obsolete (historical in later use)).

? Belly. Obsolete.

In the 17th cent. the dialect word seems to have been adopted (in the forms wem, wemb, weamb) in southern use as a jocular substitute for ‘belly’.

= ventricle, n. in various senses.

Anatomy and Zoology. = ventricle, n. 3.

Boxing slang. The stomach.

slang (originally Boxing). The stomach.

figurative and extended uses of sense 1a. Chiefly English regional (Lancashire) and Scottish. The stomach or belly of a person. Obsolete.

A person's stomach or belly. Cf. haggis, n. 4a.

A Scottish diminutive of bag, n.; the stomach.

The stomach.

humorous. The stomach or intestines of a person. Obsolete.

slang. The chest, the stomach. Obsolete.

inner man. humorously (after sense A. 1): The stomach or ‘inside’, esp. in reference to food.

inner man. The inner or spiritual part of man; the soul or mind. Also, inner woman.

= tummy, n.

= tummy, n.

The stomach or intestine.

slang. The stomach.

= stomach, n.

In singular and plural. slang. The stomach or belly; the guts.

(a) the stomach, the belly; (hence) a colostomy bag; (b) a despicable person.

the stomach.

The stomach, the belly.

Military slang. In the First World War (1914–18): the stomach.