high-stomached

English

Adjective

high-stomached (comparative more high-stomached, superlative most high-stomached)

  1. (archaic) Having a lofty spirit; haughty.
    • 1900, Jack London, The Son of the Wolf
      Besides, the art of burning to bed-rock still lay in the womb of the future, and the men of Forty-Mile, shut in by the long Arctic winter, grew high-stomached with over-eating and enforced idleness
    • 1887, H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure
      They, a chosen people, a vessel of Him they call Jehovah, ay, and a vessel of Baal, and a vessel of Astoreth, and a vessel of the gods of the Egyptians—a high-stomached people, greedy of aught that brought them wealth and power.

References
  • high-stomached in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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