• IPA: /ˈstʌmək/

stomach

1. An organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion.
2. (informal) The belly.

   Synonyms: belly, abdomen, tummy, bouk, gut, guts, maw

3. (uncountable, obsolete) Pride, haughtiness.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vii:

     Sterne was his looke, and full of stomacke vaine, / His portaunce terrible, and stature tall […].

   • 1613, William Shakespeare, The Life of King Henry the Eighth, IV. ii. 34:

     He was a man / Of an unbounded stomach, ever ranking / Himself with princes;

   • 1693, [John Locke], “§108”, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], OCLC 1161614482 ↗:

     This sort of crying […] proceeding from pride, obstinacy, and stomach, the will, where the fault lies, must be bent.

4. (obsolete) Appetite.

   a good stomach for roast beef

   • 1591, William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors, I. ii. 50:

     You come not home because you have no stomach. / You have no stomach, having broke your fast.

   • 1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, lines 920-922,

     HOST. How say you sir, doo you please to sit downe?

     EUMENIDES. Hostes I thanke you, I haue no great stomack.

   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970 ↗:

     , II.ii.1.2:

     If after seven hours' tarrying he shall have no stomach, let him defer his meal, or eat very little at his ordinary time of repast.

5. (figuratively) Desire, appetite (for something abstract).

   I have no stomach for a fight today.

   • 1591, William Shakespeare, The Life of Henry the Fifth, IV. iii. 36:

     That he which hath no stomach to this fight, / Let him depart:

• stomachic
• stomachal

• French: estomac
• German: Magen
• Italian: stomaco
• Portuguese: estômago
• Russian: желу́док
• Spanish: estómago

• French: ventre, bedon (pot belly)
• German: Bauch
• Italian: pancia
• Portuguese: barriga
• Russian: живо́т
• Spanish: barriga, vientre

stomach (stomachs, present participle stomaching; past and past participle stomached)

1. (transitive) To tolerate (something), emotionally, physically, or mentally; to stand or handle something.

   I really can’t stomach jobs involving that much paperwork, but some people seem to tolerate them.

   I can't stomach her cooking.

2. (obsolete, intransitive) To be angry.
3. (obsolete, transitive) To resent; to remember with anger; to dislike.
   • 1607, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra, III. iv. 12:

     O, my good lord, / Believe not all; or, if you must believe, / Stomach not all.

   • The lion began to show his teeth, and to stomach the affront.

   • 1649, [John] Milton, [Eikonoklastes]  […], London: Printed by Matthew Simmons,  […], OCLC 1044608640 ↗:

     The Parliament sit in that body […] to be his counsellors and dictators, though he stomach it.

4. (obsolete, transitive) To turn the stomach of; to sicken or repel.

• (to tolerate) brook, put up with; See also Thesaurus:tolerate
• (to be angry)
• (to resent) See also Thesaurus:dislike

• French: digérer
• Italian: digerire, sopportare
• Portuguese: aturar
• Russian: перева́ривать