stay-stomach

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English

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Etymology

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1800. From stay +‎ stomach.

Noun

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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.

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