stomachous
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin stomachosus, from stomachus (“stomach”).
Adjective
[edit]stomachous (comparative more stomachous, superlative most stomachous)
- (obsolete) Bitter, resentful.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- nought againe / Him answered, as courtesie became, / But with sterne lookes, and stomachous disdaine, / Gaue signes of grudge and discontentment vaine […]