Obs. [f. STOMACH sb. + -FUL 1.] Full of ‘stomach’ (STOMACH sb. 8).
1. Obstinate, self-willed. Often said of horses; also of children.)
1600. Surflet, Country Farm, I. xxiii. 130. If he [the ox] be stomackfull,… cause him to smell your hande oftentimes, that so hee may be acquainted with you.
1610. Holland, Camden’s Brit., I. 623. A very shrewd, stout, and malapert stomackfull woman.
1633. T. Adams, Exp. 2 Peter ii. 12. 835. A stomackfull horse, that will not be stopp’d in his carrier with the sharpest bit.
1643. T. Goodwin, Trial Chr. Growth, 154. Like a stomachfull boy, that cryes he cannot have the victory, yet is weak, and easily laid on his back.
1676. Marvell, Mr. Smirke, 61. (bis) But the few sincere or stomachful Bishops … expiated so in some measure, what they had committed in the Nicene Council.
1690. Locke, Educ., § 112. The obstinate or stomachful crying [of children] should by no means be permitted.
1710. M. Henry, Expos. O. & N. T. (1725), III. 522/2. A stomachful high-spirited Child must be subdued betimes.
1778. Foote, Trip to Calais, II. Wks. 1799, II. 361. You sullen, sulking, stomachful slut!
1797. Mrs. A. M. Bennett, Beggar Girl (1813), V. 38. I suppose you was too stomachful to wait on her after the gentleman died.
1828. Carr, Craven Gloss., Stomach-full, proud, obstinate.
2. Resentful, angry, malignant.
1610. Bp. Hall, Apol. agst. Brownists, Ep. Ded. 2. From the other, I receiued … a stomakful Pamphlet.
1625. Purchas, Pilgrims, II. 1216. Thomas Becket was slaine in his Church at Canterburie … by … Courtiers … which had heard some stomackfull speeches of the King, touching the said Archbishop.
1765. J. Adams, Diary, 29 Dec., Wks. 1850, II. 169. Major Miller, forsooth, is very fearful that they will be stomachful at home, and angry and resentful.
3. Spirited, courageous.
1610. Guillim, Heraldry, III. xiv. (1660), 172. The Males are more stomachfull, and of greater courage than the Females.
1658. trans. Porta’s Nat. Magick, II. vi. 37. We see, how to generate a dog as stomackful as a Lion.
1676. Wycherley, Pl. Dealer, III. i. (1677), 39. Nay, but if I had but any Body to stand by me, I am as stomachful as another.
1809. W. Irving, Knickerb., V. viii. (1861), 173. In the interim the stomachful heroes of Pyquag would have been choked with their own onions.
Hence † Stomachfully adv.; † Stomachfulness.
1611. Cotgr., Ireusement, irefully, wrathfully, stomackefully.
1614. Bp. Hall, Contempl., V. Golden Calf, 117. While so many thousand Israelites were slaine, that had stomachfully desired the Idoll.
1621. T. Granger, Eccles. ix. 17. 248. Pride, stomachfulnesse, headinesse,… auaile little.
1664–5. Pepys, Diary, 28 Feb. I … did give her very provoking words,… which she took very stomachfully, and reproached me justly with mine.
1682. Bunyan, Holy War (1905), 302. I have often heard him say, and that with great stomachfulness, that he believed that there was neither God, Angel, nor Spirit.
1747. Richardson, Clarissa (1749), II. 113. Only this Miss, That your stomachfulness had swallowed up your stomach.
1755. Johnson, Chuffily, surlily, stomachfully.
