stomachful en · NOUN · etymology 1
Pronunciation
- (US) audio
Etymology
From stomach + -ful.
Meanings
-
Enough to fill one's stomach.
It was dismissed with the thanks of the court and with the Thanksgiving stomachsful of county food.
1955 November 26, Jacob Schaad, Jr., “Kaleidoscope”, in Paterson Evening News, volume 286, Paterson, N.J., page 2: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.
1879 September 16, Colvin, “The Stomach of a Horse”, in Express and Standard, volume 8, number 402, Newport, Vt.:I had been drinking mouthsful and stomachsful of the American class system without noticing the taste.
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: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
1943 January 29, Charles P. Stewart, “Inside Washington”, in The Daily Review, thirty-eighth year, number 13,056, Clifton Forge, Va., page four:There is no need for any more stomachsful of characters in this house.
1931, Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth, page 326:Narrow and steadfast they were, and with stomachsful of conscience;[…]
1902 May 3, “A Russian Guide Book”, in The Hartford Courant, volume LXVI, number 106, Hartford, Conn., page 18: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.
2008, Jeffrey Woolf, Apples of Arcadia, Black Umbrella Books, →ISBN, page 53:Maze Man serves up stomachs[-]ful of edible dots on a Pac Man-like grid.
1984 April, “Scuttlebutt”, in Ahoy!, number 4, New York, N.Y.: Ion International Inc., page 12:
- As much as one can stomach.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| stomachfuls | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| stomachsful | Number=Plur | lexicographic |