stay-stomach
English
Etymology
1800. From stay + stomach.
Noun
stay-stomach (plural stay-stomachs)
- (obsolete, slang) A snack.
- 1841, Simms, William Gilmore, “Caloya; or, The Loves of the Driver”, in The Wigwam and the Cabin, New York: Jophn W. Lovell Company, published 1885, page 396:
- I reckon that old fellow, your husband, aint brung in your breckkus yet ; so you must be mighty hungry by this time, and there’s no better stay-stomach in the worl than hard biled eggs.
- 1873, Kingdon, Rev. Hollingworth Tully, Fasting Communion, page 91:
- But there were others in the thirteenth century, quoted in the Summa Summarum of Sylvester Prieras, who said that a man might take electuaries, or ginger by way of stay-stomach, without impeding Communion.
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Synonyms
- stay-belly
References
- “stay (v.1)” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019, retrieved 20 June 2018.