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stomach

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1. stomach - Noun

2. stomach - Verb

Meaning

An enlargement, or series of enlargements, in the anterior part of the alimentary canal, in which food is digested; any cavity in which digestion takes place in an animal; a digestive cavity. See Digestion, and Gastric juice, under Gastric.

The desire for food caused by hunger; appetite; as, a good stomach for roast beef.

Hence appetite in general; inclination; desire.

Violence of temper; anger; sullenness; resentment; willful obstinacy; stubbornness.

Pride; haughtiness; arrogance.

To resent; to remember with anger; to dislike.

To bear without repugnance; to brook.

To be angry.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts. Jerome

Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach. Woodrow Wilson

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. Flannery O’Connor

You will often see a high collar above an empty stomach. Jamaican Proverb

The way to a man's heart is through his stomach. English Proverb

All lizards lie on their bellies, but nobody knows which of them suffers stomach ache. Nigerian Proverb

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