stechsteghv.
/stɛx/, /stɛk/, U.S. /stɛk/, /stɛx/, Scottish English /stɛx/ Scottish and northern.
transitive. To fill (the stomach) to repletion; to cram (food) into (the stomach). Also figurative. Also intransitive for reflexive.
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1724 A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (1775) II. 131 How sair I sweat, To stegh your guts, ye sot.
1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd iii. iv His father steght his fortune in his wame.
a1774 R. Fergusson Poems (1785) 168 They stegh an' connoch sae the meat, Their teeth mak mair than tongue haste.
1786 R. Burns Twa Dogs ix, in Poems 12 An' tho' the gentry first are steghan, Yet ev'n the ha' folk fill their peghan.
1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd 216 Gae, get Deaf Meg and Crookit Mou'; Stech their how hungry stammachs fou.
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