Noun

(en noun)

A room or area for preparing food.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

, title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword citation , passage=Everything a living animal could do to destroy and to desecrate bed and walls had been done. […]  A canister of flour from the kitchen had been thrown at the looking-glass and lay like trampled snow over the remains of a decent blue suit with the lining ripped out which lay on top of the ruin of a plastic wardrobe.}}

An admixture of languages spoken to convey meaning between non-native speakers.

* 1885 , , (w, King Solomon's Mines) ,

Sir Henry and Umbopo sat conversing in a mixture of broken English and kitchen Zulu, in low voices, but earnestly enough.

(African American Vernacular English) The nape of a person's hairline, often referring to its uncombed or "nappy" look.

Cuisine.

(music) The percussion section of an orchestra.

* 1981 , Norman Del Mar, Anatomy of the Orchestra ,

For obvious reasons the percussion is normally arranged along the back of the platform, whether centrally or to one side, and sometimes also in two tiers, the heavy, noisier instruments behind, and the pitched, agile instruments such as vibraphone, marimba, etc. in front. An outstanding exception, however, exists in Roberto Gerhard's Epithalamion where the composer expressly desired that the all-important kitchen department be spread out in front of the strings and hence nearest the audience.

(dated) A utensil for roasting meat.

a tin kitchen

Noun

(en noun)

An organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion.

(informal) The belly.

(obsolete) Pride, haughtiness.

* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.vii:

Sterne was his looke, and full of stomacke vaine, / His portaunce terrible, and stature tall […].

* 1613 , (William Shakespeare), , IV. ii. 34:

He was a man / Of an unbounded stomach , ever ranking / Himself with princes;

* John Locke

This sort of crying proceeding from pride, obstinacy, and stomach , the will, where the fault lies, must be bent.

(obsolete) Appetite.

a good stomach for roast beef

*, II.ii.1.2:

If after seven hours' tarrying he shall have no stomach , let him defer his meal, or eat very little at his ordinary time of repast.

* 1591 , (William Shakespeare), , I. ii. 50:

You come not home because you have no stomach'. / You have no ' stomach , having broke your fast.

(figuratively) Desire, appetite (for something abstract).

I have no stomach for a fight today.

* 1591 , (William Shakespeare), , IV. iii. 36:

That he which hath no stomach to this fight, / Let him depart: