stomachful

plural stomachfuls · plural stomachsful

1. Enough to fill one's stomach.

   There is no need for any more stomachsful of characters in this house.

   1931, Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth, page 326

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   Now, the stomach, to digest it well, will contain but about ten quarts, and when the animal eats one-third of his daily ration of seven pounds in one and one-half hours, he has swallowed at least two stomachsful of hay and saliva, one of these having passed to the intestine.

   1879 September 16, Colvin, “The Stomach of a Horse”, in Express and Standard, volume 8, number 402, Newport, Vt.

   Narrow and steadfast they were, and with stomachsful of conscience;[…]

   1902 May 3, “A Russian Guide Book”, in The Hartford Courant, volume LXVI, number 106, Hartford, Conn., page 18

   Furthermore, if sources of home production are overly depleted, it is downright weakening to the field which cannot wage efficient war without ample quantities of weapons and ammunition, as well as stomachsful of just the kind of chow that doughboys thrive on

   1943 January 29, Charles P. Stewart, “Inside Washington”, in The Daily Review, thirty-eighth year, number 13,056, Clifton Forge, Va., page four

   It was dismissed with the thanks of the court and with the Thanksgiving stomachsful of county food.

   1955 November 26, Jacob Schaad, Jr., “Kaleidoscope”, in Paterson Evening News, volume 286, Paterson, N.J., page 2

   Maze Man serves up stomachs[-]ful of edible dots on a Pac Man-like grid.

   1984 April, “Scuttlebutt”, in Ahoy!, number 4, New York, N.Y.: Ion International Inc., page 12

2. As much as one can stomach.

comparative more stomachful · superlative most stomachful

1. obsoletesullen; obstinate; perverse