a. Obs. [ad. L. stomachōsus, f. stomach-us STOMACH sb.: see -OUS.] a. Spirited, courageous. b. Resentful, bitter, irascible; stubborn, obstinate.
1547. Recorde, Judic. Uryne, A iii. Stomachouse horses, whiche contemptuousely passe by the barkynge of curres.
1590. Spenser, F. Q., II. viii. 23. Who … with sterne lookes, and stomachous disdaine, Gaue signes of grudge and discontentment vaine.
a. 1641. Finett, Philox., 163. These and other the like Stommachous Speeches he let fall in my hearing.
1658. Phillips, Stomachous, angry, disdainfull.
Hence † Stomachously adv.
1593. G. Harvey, New Lett., A 3. I haue often bene compassionatly sory (or shall I say? stomachously angry) to read how [etc.].
