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 Stoke, verb. (common).—To eat: spec. (1) to eat without appetite; and (2) to wolf (q.v.).

1901. Troddles, 47. To my mind, Troddles stoked-up on bread-and-butter pudding to such an extent that I wondered how on earth he could expect to drag himself about  after it.

Stoll, verb. (North Country Cant).—1. To understand (Hotten).

2. (common).—To tipple; to booze (q.v.). Stolled = drunk: see Screwed.

Stomach, subs. (old colloquial).—Generic for disposition: e.g., (a) spirit, compassion; (b) courage, temper; and (c) pride. Hence a proud stomach = a haughty disposition; stomach-grief = anger. As verb. = (1) to endure, to encourage, (2) to resent, to disgust; to stick in the stomach = to remember with anger or disgust; stomachful = (1) stubborn, and (2) angry; stomachy = proud, irritable.

1383. Chaucer, Cant. Tales, 'Friars Tale,' 143. Stomak ne conscience ne know I noon.

1553. Sir T. Wilson, Art of Rhetoric. Stomacke grief is when we wil take the matter as hot as a toste.

d. 1556. Udal [Ellis, Lit. Letters, 4]. Your excellente herte and noble stomake.

d. 1563. Bale, Select Works, 313 When he had stomached them by the Holy Ghost He went forward with them conquering in them the prince of this world.

1570. Ascham, Scholemaster, 123. Many learned men have written with great contrarietie and some stomacke amongest them selues.

1582. Hakluyt, Voyages, ii. 23. King Richard, mooued in stomacke against King Philip, neuer shewed any gentle countenance of peace & amitie.

c. 1589. Greene, Alphonsus, iii. If that any stomach this my deed, Alphonsus can revenge my wrong with speed.

1596. Jonson, Every Man in Humour, iii. 2. O plague on them all for me! O, I do stomach them hugely.

1601. Shakspeare, Hen. VIII., iv. 2, 34. He was a man of an unbounded stomach.

1608. Capt. John Smith, True Travels, I. 39. Swift, stomackfull horse.

1641. Baker, Chronicles, 50. He was able to pull down the high Stomachs of the Prelates.

1677. Wycherley, Plain Dealer, iii. 1. If I had but any body to stand by me, I am as stomachfull as another.

d. 1704. Browne, Works, ii. 70. I have not had an opportunity till now, of telling you what sticks in my stomach.

1821. Scott, Pirate, xviii. Truths which are as unwelcome to a proud stomach as wet clover to a cow's.

1856. Motley, Dutch Repub., I. 76. The priests talk of absolution in such terms that laymen can not stomach it.

1857. Dickens, Little Dorrit. He has a proud stomach, this chap.

1866. Howells, Venetian Life, vi. If you wipe your plate and glass carefully before using them, they need not stomach you.

Stomach-timber, subs. phr. (old).—Food: cf. belly-timber.

1820. Coombe, Syntax, II. vii. As Prior tells, a clever poet The main strength of every member Depends upon the stomach timber.

Stomach-worm, subs. phr. (old).—Hunger: 'the stomach-worm gnaws' = I am hungry (Grose)

Stone, subs. (vulgar).—In pl. = the testes. Hence stone-horse = a stallion (q.v.); stone-priest = a lascivious cleric; stone fruit = children. To take a stone up in the ear (venery) = to play the whore; two stone under weight (or wanting) = castrated.

1598. Florio, Worlde of Wordes, s.v. Coglioni, the stones or testicles of a man.