Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Lacking stomach; having no appetite.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Being without a stomach.
- adjective rare Having no appetite.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Without a
stomach .
Etymologies
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stomach + -less
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Examples
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Moreover he was oppressed by a familiar and stomachless sensation -- the sensation he always had when he tried to high-dive and stood looking gingerly down from a shaky platform at water that seemed a thousand miles away and as flat and hard as a blue steel plate.
Young People's Pride Stephen Vincent Ben��t 1920
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A sharp contrast they presented, -- the German, erect, well-poised, plainly a soldier in spite of his ill-fitting clothes; the American, lank and stomachless, yet taller than the other in spite of his bent shoulders.
A Tar-Heel Baron Edward Stratton Holloway 1903
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