stay-stomach

English

Etymology

1800. From stay +‎ stomach.

Noun

stay-stomach (plural stay-stomachs)

1. (obsolete, slang) A snack.
   • 1841, William Gilmore Simms, “Caloya; or, The Loves of the Driver”, in The Wigwam and the Cabin‎^[1], New York: Jophn W. Lovell Company, published 1885, page 396:

     I reckon that old fellow, your husband, aint brung in your breckkus yet ; so you must be mighty hungry by this time, and there’s no better stay-stomach in the worl than hard biled eggs.

   • 1873, Rev. Hollingworth Tully Kingdon, Fasting Communion, page 91:

     But there were others in the thirteenth century, quoted in the Summa Summarum of Sylvester Prieras, who said that a man might take electuaries, or ginger by way of stay-stomach, without impeding Communion.

Synonyms

• stay-belly

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “stay”, in Online Etymology Dictionary, retrieved 20 June 2018.