stomachy

English

Etymology

From stomach +‎ -y.

Adjective

stomachy (comparative more stomachy, superlative most stomachy)

(obsolete) obstinate; sullen; haughty
- 1889, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Master of Ballantrae, Chapter 2:
  A little, bold, solemn, stomachy man, a great professor of piety.
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- 1872 November, Popular Science Monthly, Spontaneous Generation:
  If it [the amoeba] desires to seize any thing, it protrudes an arm for the purpose; and, when it has in this way got possession of the needed nutriment, becoming all stomachy it wraps itself round its food, and absorbs or digests it.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “stomachy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)