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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Examples
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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
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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
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‘Now never be stomachy, my good soul,’ cried Sol from the fireplace, where he stood blowing the fire with his breath.
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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 Masters faction.
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'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
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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
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(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.
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"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
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"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
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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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