chalcenterous

English

Etymology

From chalc(o)- + Ancient Greek ἔντερον (énteron, “intestines, innards”) +‎ -ous.

Adjective

chalcenterous (comparative more chalcenterous, superlative most chalcenterous)

1. (rare) Having bowels of brass; tough.

   Even when facing terrible danger, she was always stolidly chalcenterous.

   • 1889 November 9, The Saturday Review, London, page 538, column 1:

     The ghost of Mr. Woodhouse himself may stare and gasp at being told that this awful preparation, this culinary corpse-reviver, apparently suited only to chalcenterous persons or those at the point of death, is a very simple mutton broth with sippets in it.

   • 1948, R.W. Chapman, Lexicography. James Bryce Memorial Lecture, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 15:

     [He] did not scruple to tire less chalcenterous workers.

   • 2012, Stephen Harrison and Christopher Stray, editors, Expurgating the Classics: Editing Out in Greek and Latin, London: Bloomsbury Academic, page 164:

     Since the latter’s edition is intended ‘for general school and university use’, it may look as if the youth of 1961 should be viewed as considerably less chalcenterous than their predecessors of 1685.