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Meaning of stay-stomach | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

A snack.

obsolete, slang

Examples

“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.”
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.”

CEFR level

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