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单词 to stay one's longing, hunger, the appetite
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to stay one's longing, hunger, the appetite
29. to stay the stomach: to appease its cravings, stave off hunger; to quiet the appetite temporarily. Similarly to stay one's longing, hunger, the appetite, etc. Also figurative.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eat [verb (intransitive)] > stave off hunger
to stay the stomach1609
1609 W. Shakespeare Pericles xxii. 106 Lord Cerimon wee doe our longing stay, To heare the rest vntolde. View more context for this quotation
1612 B. Jonson Alchemist iii. v. sig. H3 A piece of Ginger-bread, to be mery withall, And stay your stomacke, least you faint with fasting. View more context for this quotation
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. vii. 419 All this Income rather stayed the stomack, than satisfied the hunger of the Kings Exchequer.
1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician i. 23 Fat and clammy things stay too great hunger.
1739 H. Walpole Let. to R. West 18 June To stay your stomach, I will send you one of the vaudevilles or ballads.
a1853 F. W. Robertson Serm. (1857) 3rd Ser. xx. 258 A thing which when chewed will stay the appetite.
1877 C. H. Spurgeon Serm. XXIII. 495 Present mercies are a sip by the way—a morsel eaten to stay the stomach.
1879 R. L. Stevenson Trav. with Donkey 89 Father Michael..gave me a glass of liqueur to stay me till dinner.
1888 Sat. Rev. 20 Oct. 453/1 It would appear that the fight at the Jalapla has..stayed the stomach of the Lamas for fighting.
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