Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Proud; haughty; irascible; easily offended.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Obstinate; sullen; haughty.

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  • adjective obsolete obstinate; sullen; haughty

Etymologies

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stomach +‎ -y

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Examples

  • Gina got a tad stomachy from flying, too, but for different reasons: the threat of terrorism, the certainty of bad food, and how a two-hundred-ton aluminum bird defied all logic.

    Same As You billy robinson 2010

  • BUT BE WARNED…even the test is pretty tough – so if you are weak-stomachy or wussy in any way, you need not go any further.

    A Friendly Reminder To Look In The Mirror And Tell Yourself You’re Beautiful | Best Week Ever 2008

  • ‘Now never be stomachy, my good soul,’ cried Sol from the fireplace, where he stood blowing the fire with his breath.

    The Hand of Ethelberta 2006

  • John Paul, a little, bald, solemn, stomachy man, a great professor of piety and (take him for all in all) a pretty faithful servant, was the chief of the Master’s faction.

    Summary of Events (continued) 1889

  • 'Now never be stomachy, my good soul,' cried Sol from the fireplace, where he stood blowing the fire with his breath.

    The Hand of Ethelberta Thomas Hardy 1884

  • Africa Boogaloo opens sounding deep, stomachy, rich, with cozy brass and handsome singing on the Le Grand Kalle track that gives the album its name.

    PopMatters 2010

  • (natural) case of tripe sliced and coiled into hundreds of little stomachy springs, so that when you apply a knife to the resulting mammoth sausage they jump out and unfurl themselves in all their rubbery glory.

    The Guardian World News 2010

  • "Awh, iss: I knaws 'en fast enuf," said Triggs, who felt by intuition that Reuben's desire was to know no good of him, "and a precious stomachy chap he is.

    Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Various

  • "His Grace was in blue-and-silver, which became him, though he is somewhat stomachy for such conspicuous colors.

    Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes James Branch Cabell 1918

  • When he spoke of the plains of father Abraham, and of the smoke and thunder of the battle, Pardon, it stirred up such stomachy feelings in my bosom, that I verily believe I could have had the heart to throw aside the thimble, and go forth myself, to seek glory in battling in the cause of the King. "

    The Red Rover James Fenimore Cooper 1820

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