stomachful

English

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Etymology 1

From stomach +‎ -ful.

Noun

stomachful (plural stomachfuls or stomachsful)

1. Enough to fill one's stomach.
   • 1879 September 16, Colvin, “The Stomach of a Horse”, in Express and Standard‎, volume 8, number 402, Newport, Vt.:

     Now, the stomach, to digest it well, will contain but about ten quarts, and when the animal eats one-third of his daily ration of seven pounds in one and one-half hours, he has swallowed at least two stomachsful of hay and saliva, one of these having passed to the intestine.

   • 1902 May 3, “A Russian Guide Book”, in The Hartford Courant, volume LXVI, number 106, Hartford, Conn., page 18:

     Narrow and steadfast they were, and with stomachsful of conscience; […]

   • 1931, Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth, page 326:

     There is no need for any more stomachsful of characters in this house.

   • 1943 January 29, Charles P. Stewart, “Inside Washington”, in The Daily Review, thirty-eighth year, number 13,056, Clifton Forge, Va., page four:

     Furthermore, if sources of home production are overly depleted, it is downright weakening to the field which cannot wage efficient war without ample quantities of weapons and ammunition, as well as stomachsful of just the kind of chow that doughboys thrive on

   • 1955 November 26, Jacob Schaad, Jr., “Kaleidoscope”, in Paterson Evening News, volume 286, Paterson, N.J., page 2:

     It was dismissed with the thanks of the court and with the Thanksgiving stomachsful of county food.

   • 1984 April, “Scuttlebutt”, in Ahoy!, number 4, New York, N.Y.: Ion International Inc., page 12:

     Maze Man serves up stomachs[-]ful of edible dots on a Pac Man-like grid.

   • 1996, Carol Bly, “In the Maternity Wing, Madison, Minnesota”, in W. Scott Olsen, Scott Cairns, editors, The Sacred Place: Witnessing the Holy in the Physical World, Salt Lake City, Utah: University of Utah Press, →ISBN, page 297:

     I had been drinking mouthsful and stomachsful of the American class system without noticing the taste.

   • 2008, Jeffrey Woolf, Apples of Arcadia, Black Umbrella Books, →ISBN, page 53:

     It’s near midnight now and the restaurant upstairs is shelving its trays and down pour those left snoring in the gazebo, mostly consisting of a few bloated bridgemen whose stomachsful of beef have given them all a taste for their own saliva.

2. As much as one can stomach.

Etymology 2

From stomach +‎ -ful.

Adjective

stomachful (comparative more stomachful, superlative most stomachful)

1. (obsolete) sullen; obstinate; perverse

Anagrams

• stomach flu