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Midriff vs Stomach - What's the difference?

midriff | stomach |

As nouns the difference between midriff and stomach

is that midriff is the mid section of the human torso, from below the chest to above the waist while stomach is an organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion.

As a verb stomach is

to tolerate (something), emotionally, physically, or mentally; to stand or handle something.

midriff

English

(wikipedia midriff)

Alternative forms

* (l) * (l)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The mid section of the human torso, from below the chest to above the waist
  • *

    • See also

    * diaphragm

    stomach

    English

    (wikipedia stomach)

    Alternative forms

    * stomack

    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:

    Synonyms

    * (belly) abdomen, belly, bouk, gut, guts, maw, tummy

    Derived terms

    * sick to one's stomach * stomach lining * the way to a man's heart is through his stomach

    Descendants

    * stummy, tummy

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To tolerate (something), emotionally, physically, or mentally; to stand or handle something.
    • I really can’t stomach jobs involving that much paperwork, but some people seem to tolerate them.
    I can't stomach her cooking.
  • (obsolete) To be angry.
    • (Hooker)
  • (obsolete) To resent; to remember with anger; to dislike.
  • * 1607 , , III. iv. 12:
    • O, my good lord, / Believe not all; or, if you must believe, / Stomach not all.
  • * L'Estrange
    • The lion began to show his teeth, and to stomach the affront.
  • * Milton
    • The Parliament sit in that body to be his counsellors and dictators, though he stomach it.

    Derived terms

    * stomachable * unstomachable

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